Alighiero Boetti
Alighiero Boetti aka Alighiero e Boetti ; (* December 16, 1940 in Turin ; † April 24, 1994 in Rome ) was an Italian graphic artist , painter and object artist of the Arte Povera . Boetti was influenced, among other things, by the object art of Jean Dubuffet .
Live and act
Alighiero Fabrizio Boetti was the son of the lawyer Corrado Boetti and the violinist Adelina Marchisio. Boetti was interested in mathematics , music , philosophy , alchemy and esotericism early on and studied the works of Hermann Hesse and the painter Paul Klee . As an artist, Boetti was self-taught : he broke off his studies at the University of Turin to devote himself to art. At the age of 17 he discovered the work of the German artist Wols , as well as the work of Lucio Fontana and Nicolas de Staël . At the age of 20 he moved to Paris , where he did an engraving apprenticeship. In 1964 he married Annemarie Sauzeau, with whom he had two children: Matteo (* 1967) and Agata (* 1972). From the mid-1960s onwards, he drew attention to himself through artistic activities. Following his first exhibition in 1967, he joined the Arte Povera movement at short notice (until the early 1970s). At this time, a special interest in oriental culture arose . In 1971 Boetti went on a trip to Afghanistan , where he had his embroidery pictures made by Afghan women. The production of these embroideries would continue until his death. Boetti returned to Afghanistan annually until 1979, the year the Soviet Army invaded . From the mid-1970s, Boetti appeared as the fictional artist duo Alighiero e Boetti in order to signal opposing factors in his work: individuality and society, error and perfection , order and disorder; he often worked with other people - both artists and non-artists - whose contributions flowed into his work.
In 1972 he took part in Documenta 5 in Kassel in the Individual Mythologies department and was also represented as an artist at Documenta 7 in 1982.
Alighiero Boetti died in Rome in 1994 of complications from a brain tumor .
Works
Selection of external web links
- 1966–1967: 5 numbered doors , (5 porte numerate) , installation, wood and cork oak, Alighiero Boetti - 5 porte numerate - Mart
- 1973: Ononimo (in 11 parts) , 11 cardboard boxes regularly painted with a red pen
- 1976/1978: I mille fiumi più lunghi del mondo , Museum of Modern Art (MMK), Frankfurt am Main
- 1986: For love in heaven , (Per l'amor del cielo) , mixed media on paper, Alighiero Boetti - Per l'amor del cielo - Mart
- 1988–89: Hungry for wind , (Avere fame di vento) , tapestry, Alighiero Boetti - Avere fame di vento - Mart
- 1989: map , (Mappa) , tapestry, Alighiero Boetti - Peshawar – Pakistan by Afghan people - Mart
- 1994: Tutto , Museum of Modern Art (MMK), Frankfurt am Main
literature
- Paola Morsiani, Barry Schwabsky: When 1 is 2. The Art of Alighiero e Boetti , Contemporary Arts Museum Houston , Houston , Texas 2002, ISBN 0-936080-75-2 .
- Giovan Battista Salerno: Alighiero E Boetti , Umberto Allemandi, 2006, ISBN 88-422-1433-7 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christie's, London February 11, 2010
Web links
- Alighiero Boetti at artfacts.net
- Literature by and about Alighiero Boetti in the catalog of the German National Library
- Search for Alighiero Boetti in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
- Fondazione Alighiero e Boetti (English / Italian)
- Archivio Alighiero Boetti (English / Italian)
- Alighiero Boetti at the Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York (English)
- Materials by and about Alighiero Boetti in the documenta archive
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boetti, Alighiero |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian painter and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 16, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Turin |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 24, 1994 |
| Place of death | Rome |