Alighiero Boetti

Mappa

November 7, 2009 January 23, 2010

New York: 21st Street

Gladstone Gallery and the Fondazione Alighiero e Boetti, working in close association with the Archivio Alighiero Boetti, are pleased to announce the first ever retrospective entirely dedicated to Alighiero e Boetti’s Mappa series.

During his second voyage to Afghanistan in 1971, Boetti pondered the idea of the first Mappa: He commissioned Afghan craftswomen, who following the artist’s directives, hand-embroidered a map of the world in which the geopolitical boundaries were filled with each country’s flag. This first piece began a twenty-year collaboration that continued until the artist’s premature death in 1994. Viewed as an ongoing series, they bring to light the man-made divisions drawn over the continents and chart the political realities of the world from the early 1970s through the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the USSR.

展览现场

Installation View, Alighiero Boetti, Mappa, at Gladstone Gallery, New York, 2009

作品

Alighiero Boetti

Mappa, 1989
Embroidery
46 34 x 86 34 inches (118.7 x 220.3 cm)

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在他的职业生涯中,阿利吉耶罗·博埃蒂越来越重视创意概念,通过这一概念探索文化和社会。博埃蒂1940年出生于都灵,到1966年已经与一群艺术家联系在一起,这群艺术家的开创性作品由日尔曼诺·塞兰特在1967年的展览“贫穷艺术”中展示。通过使用日常材料,贫穷艺术的美学试图与现实生活建立起直接联系。这些艺术家共享对颠覆“虚假”消费主义现实背后主导结构的强烈兴趣。与他的政治哲学一致,博埃蒂将自己的名字改为阿利吉耶罗·博埃蒂,以揭示一个人身份之中存在的基本结构,表现在自我和名字的双重性上。他说:“虽然名字是独一无二的,但姓氏已经是一个范畴,一种分类手段……”双极性贯穿了博埃蒂的思想:部分和整体;半和双倍;满与空;秩序与混乱;加法和减法;阿利吉耶罗和博埃蒂。博埃蒂在他的整个职业生涯中寻求揭示结构的双重性。博埃蒂的个展包括:埃因霍温史泰迪约克·凡·阿贝博物馆;威尼斯双年展;明斯特艺术协会;格勒诺布尔国家现代艺术中心;洛杉矶当代艺术博物馆;纽约DIA艺术中心;纽约现代艺术研究所P.S.1博物馆;都灵市立现代和当代艺术画廊;罗马国家现代艺术画廊;法兰克福现代艺术博物馆;以及伦敦怀特查珀尔艺术画廊。阿利吉耶罗·博埃蒂于1994年去世。

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