Alighiero Boetti
Alighiero Boetti Alighiero e Boetti alias; ( Born December 16, 1940 in Turin, † April 24, 1994 in Rome ) was an Italian graphic artist, painter and object artist of Arte Povera. Boetti was influenced among other things by the object art of Jean Dubuffet.
Life and work
Alighiero Boetti Fabrizio was the son of the lawyer Corrado Boetti and the violinist Adelina Marchisio. Boetti was interested in early for mathematics, music, philosophy, alchemy and esotericism, and dealt with the works of Hermann Hesse and with the painter Paul Klee. As an artist, Boetti was self-taught: his studies at the University of Turin, he broke off to devote himself to art. At age 17, he discovered the work of German artist wolf itself, and the work of Lucio Fontana and Nicolas de Staël. At 20 he moved to Paris, where he made an engraver teaching. In 1964 he married Anne Marie Sauzeau, with whom he had two children: Matteo (1967 ) and Agata (* 1972). From the mid- 1960s, he drew attention to themselves through artistic activities. Following his first exhibition in 1967, he joined the short term (up in the early 1970s ) of the Arte Povera movement. At this time created a special interest in the oriental culture. In 1971 Boetti a trip to Afghanistan, where he create his stick pictures of Afghan women. The production of these embroideries should run away until his death. Until 1979, the year of the invasion of the Soviet army, Boetti went back to Afghanistan annually. From the mid- 1970s, Boetti appeared as fictional artist Alighiero e Boetti duo on to signal by opposing factors in his work: individuality and society, error and perfection, order and disorder; while he worked often with other people - both artists such as non-artists - together, embracing their contributions in his work.
In 1972 he participated in Documenta 5 in Kassel in the Department of Individual mythologies and at the Documenta 7 in 1982 as an artist.
Alighiero Boetti died in Rome in 1994 as the result of a brain tumor.
Works
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