Name/Title
Alighiero Boetti : game planEntry/Object ID
N9500.B64.G36Description
The exhibition brings together works related to travel, geography, and mapping, many of which relate to his extensive travels to Afghanistan, where he operated the One Hotel (archival material from which will be on view) from 1971 until the Soviet invasion in 1979. During this period, Boetti began working with local artisans to produce embroideries such as the Mappas (maps), Arazzi (word squares), and Tuttos (literally, "Everything"). Published to accompany the first large-scale retrospective of Alighiero Boetti’s work outside Italy in over a decade, this volume presents the most comprehensive overview of the artist’s career to date. Covering all periods of Boetti’s broad oeuvre--including early sculptural experiments associated with the Arte Povera movement, conceptual and ephemeral projects of the 1970s and the monumental embroideries and tapestries he fabricated up to his death--this richly illustrated catalogue is structured as a typology of the artist’s body of work rather than a chronological progression. Essays by curators from the Reina Sofia, Madrid, the Tate Modern, London and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, address recurrent themes in Boetti’s work such as travel and geography, time, order and disorder and singularity and multitude, while contributions by scholars examine his early influences and his relationship to the cultural, political, and social spheres of Italy and Afghanistan in the 1970s and 1980s. This volume celebrates the material diversity, conceptual complexity and visual beauty of Boetti’s work, proving that he is one of the most important and influential artists of his generation.Context
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Oct. 5 2011-Feb. 5, 2012; Tate Modern, London, Feb. 28-May 27, 2012; and at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, July 1-Oct. 1, 2012.Collection
Carol Westfall CollectionLexicon
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Category
Exhibition catalogBook Details
Author
Alighiero BoettiEditor
Lynne Cooke, Mark Godfrey, Christian LacroixPublisher
Museum of Modern ArtDate Published
2012Call No.
N9500.B64.G36ISBN
870708198, 9780870708190LCCN
2011936107Notes
Length: 279General Notes
Note Type
ContentsNote
Boetti's Game plan / Lynne Cooke -- From Alighiero to Boetti / Christian Rattemeyer -- Figuring Boetti / Claire Gilman -- Giving time to time : Boetti and Italy's "creeping May" / Jason E. Smith -- Boetti and Afghanistan / Mark Godfrey -- Conversation with Alighiero Boetti / Bruno Corà.