Alighiero Boetti

Studio d'Arte Cannaviello, Milano
Ivi acquistato dall'attuale proprietario nel 1983

This work appears to be in generally good overall condition. Colour is slightly more greenish compared to the catalogue illustration. the bearings are slightly wavy. Fist part: There is a tiny discoloured round towards the upper left corner. There is a trace of a crease by the upper left corner. There are 2 tiny tears along the left edge, towards the upper and lower sides. Second part: There are 3 traces of creases towards the center of the upper edge and few minor towards the center of the work. Third part: There are few tiny discolorations towards the upper left corner, along the upper margin towards left and the center. There is a very minor paper loss by upper left corner and a trace of wearing by the lower left corner. There are light traces of creases along margins.
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Alighiero Boetti amava gli aerei, ne era ammaliato, li ricalcava sempre ovunque li trovasse. 
Nella Cartella Insicuro Noncurante non poteva mancare memoria di questa passione pura come lo sono quelle dell’infanzia : ogni foglio 78 riporta infatti il ricalco di aerei sempre diversi presi da giornali e riviste. 

Il titolo fa riferimento alla rivista ufficiale dell’aviazione italiana “Aviazione oggi”.  
L’ufficialità è un elemento fondamentale e assolutamente ricorrente, come un sigillo di garanzia. Nel 1977 la galleria Il Collezionista di Roma presentò una mostra sugli "Aerei" di Boetti disegnati da Guido Fuga, architetto e fumettista italiano.
Questi tre pannelli sono di particolare bellezza per via del tratto a biro splendidamente uniforme, come quello di cielo terso. Visti nella loro totalità sembrano formare un orizzonte, chiuso sui margini superiori e inferiori e strabordante e potenzialmente infinito ai lati, quasi che gli aeroplani volesse estendere all'infinito il proprio volo.
Corinna Turati e Rinaldo Rossi

Alighiero Boetti loved airplanes he was totally fascinated by them,  he would trace them wherever he viewed one of them.
The Folder Insicuro Noncurante could not omit to include this  pure
passion of the artist, as pure as a child passion: each sheet 78 depicts
airplanes’ traced shapes that always differed  from each other taken
directly from newspapers and magazines. The title refers to the official
magazine of the Italian Aviation, named Aviazione oggi (Aviation today).
The official character is fundamental and recurs as a guarantee seal.
In 1977, the Collezionista di Roma gallery, opened an exhibition
called “Aerei” (Airplanes) that showed Boetti’s airplanes drawn by the Italian
architect and comic-strip artist Guido Fuga. These three panels are
exceptionally beautiful, the ball point trace is incredibly  well
amalgamated and compound like the texture of a clear sky; seen all together
these airplanes seem to draw a horizon closed on the lower and upper margins and overflowing  from both sides leading to a potential infinite as if the airplanes could fly away from the surface.