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Alighiero Boetti
Description
- Alighiero Boetti
- La Mole Antonelliana
- ciascuna cartolina iscritta e/o firmata
- cinque cartoline postali firmate e timbrate
- cm 14,5x10 ciascuna (5 elementi)
- Eseguito nel 1973-1975
Provenance
Exhibited
Literature
Condition
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Catalogue Note
Alberto Boatto, Alighiero & Boetti, 1984
I wander through Boetti’s rich and diverse work with attention and fervor, and I confess that this piece eludes me. Displacement is the conspicuous way in which it makes its appearance, but it is also the artifice through which it slips through my hold. This artwork, like its author, appears to possess qualities so volatile it never seems to be in the exact same place where it presents itself; it continues to show me, unfazed, a dimension beyond itself. The artist himself, clearly mirrored in his work, like a reluctant Narcissus, seems to possess the gift of ubiquity, thus constantly appearing both here and elsewhere. A western man, born in enlightened Turin- that is, a city equal parts reason and gothic novel, later moving to the stagnant confusion of Rome, Boetti is also -rather than a traveler- an inhabitant of Eastern lands. His Afghanistan and Kabul cannot be compared to a country or city easily reached by charter tourists. It is not a vacation spot but a city of the imagination (…) This nomad, in eternal flight, also turns out to be a rather mindful and resourceful figure, much like Mercury, in whose influence I would intuitively place this artwork and its author. (Alberto Boatto, Alighiero & Boetti, 1984)