LOT DETAILS

Materials:

paper doilies and iron

Measurements:

83.07 in. (211.00 cm.) (height) by 14.17 in. (36.00 cm.) (width) by 9.45 in. (24.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed, inscribed and dated ‘uno dei mille e mille fogli che compongono la colonna realizzata a Torino nel sessantotto, fuori e in silenzio dalla furiosa contestazione alighiero e boetti’ (on one of the paper doilies)

Exhibited:

Rome, Galleria Arco d’Alibert, Il percorso, 1968.Naples, MADRE, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Alighiero & Boetti. Mettere all’arte il mondo 1993–1962, 2009(illustrated in colour, p. 143).Madrid, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Alighiero Boetti – Game Plan, 2011-2012 (illustrated in colour, p. 51). This exhibition later travelled to London, Tate Modern and New York, MoMA.

Literature:

Arte Italiana 1960–1982, exh. cat., London, Institute of Contemporary Art, 1982 (illustrated, p. 152).Avanguardia Transavanguardia, exh. cat., Rome, Mura Aureliane, 1982, no. 27 (illustrated, p. 32).G. Perretta, "L' arte, gli artisti e il '68", in Flash Art, no. 147, 1988–1989 (illustrated, p. 66).ALIGHIEROEBOETTI, exh. cat., Cosenza, Palazzo Arnone, 2005–2006 (illustrated in colour, p. 28).United Artists of Italy, exh. cat., Saint-Etienne, Musee de l’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne, 2008 (the artist with the work illustrated, pp. 106-107).M. Senaldi, Salvo- Il peccato di desiderare, Milan 2000 (the artist with the work illustrated, pp. 20-24).J. C. Ammann, Alighiero e Boetti. Catalogo generale. Tomo primo, Milan 2009 (illustrated in colour, p. 197).The Artist’s Eye. Photographic Portraits of artists from the Galleria Civica di Modena, exh. cat., Cork, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, 2013 (the artist with the work illustrated, pp. 59-61).

Provenance:

Galleria Toselli, Milan.Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1976.