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1940 Turin, Italy - 1994 Rome, Italy. Known for: Embroidered maps, conceptual mixed-media, found objects.
Alighiero Boetti (also known as Alighiero e Boetti; December 16, 1940 - February 24, 1994) was an Italian conceptual artist, considered to be a member of the art movement Arte Povera. He is most... Read full biography
Alighiero Boetti (also known as Alighiero e Boetti; December 16, 1940 - February 24, 1994) was an Italian conceptual artist, considered to be a member of the art movement Arte Povera. He is most famous for a series of embroidered maps of the world, Mappa, created between 1971 and his death in 1994.... Read full biography
Alighiero Boetti (also known as Alighiero e Boetti; December 16, 1940 - February 24, 1994) was an Italian conceptual artist, considered to be a member of the art movement Arte Povera. He is most famous for a series of embroidered maps of the world, Mappa, created between 1971 and his death in 1994. Boetti's work was typified by his notion of 'twinning', leading him to add 'e' (and) between his names, 'stimulating a dialectic exchange between these two selves'. Alighiero Fabrizio Boetti was born... Read full biography
Alighiero Boetti (also known as Alighiero e Boetti; December 16, 1940 - February 24, 1994) was an Italian conceptual artist, considered to be a member of the art movement Arte Povera. He is most famous for a series of embroidered maps of the world, Mappa, created between 1971 and his death in 1994. Boetti's work was typified by his notion of 'twinning', leading him to add 'e' (and) between his names, 'stimulating a dialectic exchange between these two selves'. Alighiero Fabrizio Boetti was born in Turin, to Corrado Boetti, a lawyer, and Adelina Marchisio, a violinist. Boetti abandoned his studies at the business school of the University of Turin to work as an artist. Already in his early years, he had profound and wide-ranging theoretical... Read full biography
Alighiero Boetti (also known as Alighiero e Boetti; December 16, 1940 - February 24, 1994) was an Italian conceptual artist, considered to be a member of the art movement Arte Povera. He is most famous for a series of embroidered maps of the world, Mappa, created between 1971 and his death in 1994. Boetti's work was typified by his notion of 'twinning', leading him to add 'e' (and) between his names, 'stimulating a dialectic exchange between these two selves'. Alighiero Fabrizio Boetti was born in Turin, to Corrado Boetti, a lawyer, and Adelina Marchisio, a violinist. Boetti abandoned his studies at the business school of the University of Turin to work as an artist. Already in his early years, he had profound and wide-ranging theoretical interests and studied works on such diverse topics as philosophy, alchemy and esoterics. Among his the preferred authors of his youth were... Read full biography
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Keywords (25)
Art Method
- •Arte Povera
- •Collage and/or Decoupage
- •Conceptual
- •Monochrome
- •Words, Text, Calligraphy, Letters
Art Media
- •Acrylic Paint
- •Aluminum/Aluminium
- •Assemblage
- •Colored Pencil
- •Engraving, Engraver
- •Fiber Art Design: Fabric, Crochet, Quilting, Knitting, Weaving
- •Gouache
- •Ink
- •Iron, Cast Iron
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Plaster
- •Plexiglas
- •Tempera
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
- •Wood for carving, sculpture, and/or surface
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Asia, Orient
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Italian
Exhibition of Special Group
- •Art Basel Exhibition