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Eva Menzio & Fabrizio Moreti Alighiero Boeti Alighiero Boeti Oggi quarto giorno del quarto mese anno uno nove oto nove 1989 Embroidery on coton 110 x 110 cm Alighiero Boeti Alighiero Boeti Sandro Penna: Una parola al vento... io vivere vorrei addormentato entro il dolce rumore della vita 1989 1977 Embroidery on fabric, Embroidery on linen canvas 82,7 x 26 cm 58 x 62 cm Signed on back Alighiero Boeti Lavoro postale (Per Nini, Melina, Valentina Mulas) 1973-74 Stamped envelopes including dry I SEE stamp, ink and pencil 49 x 62 cm Alighiero Boeti Alighiero Boeti Svelare e rivelare Segno e disegno 1992 1977 Gray monochrome embroidery Embroidery on canvas mounted on board 22 x 23 cm 29.5 x 29.5cm signed, inscribed and dated “alighiero e boeti Kabul 77” (on the reverse) Alighiero Boeti Alighiero Boeti Mimetico (Camoufage) Dare tempo al tempo 1967 1979 Camoufage fabric Monochrome Embroidery 45 x 45 cm 24 x 24.5 cm signed ‘alighiero e boeti’ (on the overlap) Alighiero Boeti Planisfero Politico 1969-70 Watercolour and felt-tip pen on paper 73.5 x 119 cm Alighiero Boeti Alighiero Boeti Donnina Donnina 1990 1990 Mixed media on canvas-backed paper Mixed media on canvas-backed paper 200 x 150 cm 200 x 150 cm Alighiero Boeti Alighiero Boeti Senza titolo Lavoro postale 1979 1990 Ink, pencil, collage, stamp and photocopies on paper Envelopes with stamps and drawing on paper 69 x 50 cm 43,5x37 cm 28x21 cm (6 artworks) Alighiero Boeti Alighiero Boeti Senza titolo (Il rinoceronte quasi estinto...) Senza titolo 1991 1990 Mixed media on canvas-backed paper Mixed media on paper 70 x 50 cm 70 x 100 cm Alighiero Boeti Alighiero Boeti Manifesto (36 of 50) Senza titolo 1991 1967 Ofset printing, Stickers on paper 800 copies edition of which 50 signed and numbered from 1 to 50 36/50 70 x 100 cm 100 x 70 cm Biography 1940 Alighiero Fabrizio Boeti was born on 16 December, in Turin. 1955-1961 Boeti is an autodidact. Pavese, Montale, Mann, Faulkner and above all Herman Hesse (whose complete works he read) were some of the authors who meant most to him. Turin at the time was a highly stimulating city with an international outlook, Here the young Boeti discovered Tantric art. His initiation into contemporary art came at seventeen in Luciano Pistoi’s Galleria Notizie, where he saw watercolors by Wols, works by Fontana, paintings by Gorky and Rothko, drawings by Henry Michaux and discovered Cy Twombly in 1963 (a year also notable for Balla’s frst major retrospective at the Galleria Civica). 1962-1964 In 1962 he met Annemarie Sauzeau, a young teacher, who became his wife in 1964; they remained married until 1987. Boeti moved to Paris in autumn 1962. Lacking a studio, he concentrated on “chamber works”: drawings in India ink on kleenex and “combustions” of small boxes of matches, By autumn ’64 he had returned permanently to his apartment-studio on Via Principe Amedeo in Turin. 1965 AB moved on to a new kind of drawing in India ink, doing black Chinese shadows and silhouetes: simplifed outlines of combs, tumblers and botles, industrial equipment, desk lamps, microphones, still and movie cameras. Boeti exhibited these drawings for the frst time in 1981 in Paris and ten years later at his retrospective in Bonn. 1966 reproduced in the catalog, the frst important publication On the art scene in Turin, AB tended to keep to himself. He to deal with AB. produced numerous minimalist works. Some, in particular 1968 those using light installations which shortly preceded Ping This year AB produced the “sculpture” Autoritrato Pong and Lampada annual. This year AB began to frequent negativo, the photo montage Shaman-Showman and fnally the avantgarde galleries run by Gian Enzo Sperone and a second montage Gemelli, which he sent to about ffty of Christian Stein, where he met some young Turin-based his friends. From this double image he derived, in 1971, his artists, including Mondino, Gilardi, Piacentino, Paolini and new signature “Alighiero e Boeti.” Pistoleto. 1969 1967 On 19 April, at the frst solo exhibition in the Galleria 19 January, Galleria Christian Stein: opening of Boeti’s frst Sperone, AB presented three works in mixed media: Io solo exhibition. prendo il sole a Torino il 24-2-1969 (its second title, later In the profusion of ideas, gestures and objects of ’66, there defnitively modifed to Io che prendo il sole a Torino was already an obsession with writing and two dimensions, il 19 gennaio 1969), Portrait of Walter de Maria, Vetrata with various panels devoted to language: stif upper lip, the (which reduced in size became Niente da vedere niente da thin thumb, CLINO, frou frou. nascondere). In the spring following the exhibition, Boeti began what he 15 July, Turin: his frst child, Mateo, was born. called “panels of colors.” In summer AB began a work in progress, the Viaggi In this period he moved into a new studio, larger and postali. The work consisted in imagining the addressees brighter, on Corso Principe Oddone. Between the frst had traveled to various places, 181 in all, and then sending exhibition at the Galleria Stein and his second solo show them leters they would not receive, since they were at La Bertesca in Genoa in December, he took part in all the obviously not resident at the addresses chosen.The leters early group exhibitions of Arte Povera in Turin, Milan and that returned undelivered to the sender, AB, would be put Genoa, especially “Con/temp/l’azione” curated by Daniela in ever larger envelopes and forwarded to the other points Palazzoli and held in the three Turin galleries Il Punto, on their journey (the frst envelope contained the complete Sperone and Stein, and “Le parole, le cose – Fluxus: Arte itinerary). totale” held at the Galleria Il Punto and the Teatro Stabile. On an old map printed in black and white, AB colored in In the summer he spent a long period in the Cinque Terre: the various countries using the colors of their fags. This at his home perched above the sea in the village of San Planisfero politico (in two variants) was the starting point, Bernardino between Vernazza and Corniglia. developed in 1971, for his later embroidered maps. In December he had a solo exhibition at the Galleria La Bertesca in Genoa, with new works, among which diferent 1970 Boeti completed the series of Viaggi postali over the versions of Mimetico and three-dimensional works, all course of the year. His frst Lavoro postale, based on three diferent stamps (with six possible combinations, hence six BOETTI MADE IN ITALY, ABEEGHIIILOORTT, envelopes), was sent to the Galleria Sperone. AELLEIGIACCAIEERREOBIOETITII. Then fnally he He continued to experiment with squared paper. After began to split his identity in two by inserting “and” in his the tracings and word squares, in 1970 he adopted a new name, hence writing it “Alighiero e Boeti.” approach: using plain sheets of copybook paper, he began 1972 writing with commas, a system he developed further in On 16 March Agata, his second child, was born. 1972 in his works in ballpoint pen. 18–30 June, “Alighiero e Boeti,” solo exhibition at the At the end of the summer, in his passion for serial works, Galerie MTL in Brussels. This was the frst time Boeti’s AB planned to place geographical features in progressive name was given this form. (decreasing) order, with a classifcation of the rivers of the In Kabul in September Boeti arranged for the embroidering world which went well beyond the modest lists found in of a frst small word square, Ordine e disordine, measuring encyclopedias. His wife was involved in the project. In about 20 × 20 cm, embroidered in many colors. He also started October Annemarie Sauzeau started to draw up a list of the another type of embroidery whose title, I Vedenti (“The world’s one thousand longest rivers. Sighted”) refers to the central letering, which is interwoven 1971 with the colorful ground and so barely perceptible. With the addition of the newly founded state of Bangladesh He began the cycle of ballpoint works done “in negative” in March 1971, he completed a work in progress begun in (with the blank “reserve” emerging against a ground 1967, a collection of geopolitical maps. The fnal work, titled hatched in ballpoint). The structure of all of his works in Dodici forme dal 10 giugno 1967, made on copper plates, biro “writen” in white commas meant that each comma engraved after the model of his tracings on paper, was was given the value of a leter, being deciphered on the basis exhibited at the Galleria Sperone in summer. In autumn an of Cartesian axes: one variable consisted of reading from left edition printed on paper was issued. to right and the other of the leters of the alphabet. Meanwhile, in late March AB left for Afghanistan and 1973 stayed there several weeks. This was the beginning of a In March AB had his frst solo exhibition at the John Weber ritual of making two visits every year which continued up Gallery in New York. until 1979. The postal works with Italian stamps were followed by the 1974 frst with stamps from Afghanistan. In April, Boeti traveled to Afghanistan with Francesco During his stay in the country he created One Hotel, in Clemente. a small mansion house with a garden in the Sharanaw AB began to produce his frst Calendari, by selecting from residential quarter of Kabul. the 365 sheets of an ordinary astronomical calendar only In the same period AB began to produce works writen those containing one or more numbers which could be in blue ballpoint pen on white cardboard which used to compose the digits of the new year, a fgure that played on his name and identity: AB, ALIGHIERO determined the variable number of works he could produce.

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