Alighiero Boetti

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Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994) was born in Turin, where he first gained attention for his work in the sphere of Arte Povera in January 1967.
A kaleidoscopically versatile conceptual artist, alchemist and indefatigable traveller, over his three-decade career he produced many different types of work, for some delegating the manual execution to others—as in his famous collaborations with Afghan embroiderers—but always in accordance with very specific rules. These experiments yielded his ballpoint monochromes (blue, black, red, and green) in which the coloured-in surface of the paper makes words emerge; his many embroidered works on fabric, ranging from his Maps to his compositions with letters—always square and multicoloured, like Order and Disorder—or the Everything series, intricate puzzles that juxtapose magazine illustrations, desktop items, animal silhouettes, and more.
Other categories of works are exclusively by Boetti’s own hand: from his Postal Works—which play on the mathematical permutation of stamps, the adventure of a journey through the mail, and the secret beauty of the sheets travelling inside the envelopes—to his pencil "exercises" on graph paper, based on musical or mathematical rhythms.

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