17/06/15
Alighiero Boetti: Order and
Disorder
Mazzoleni, London
5 June – 31 July 2015
The exhibition of works by the
Italian artist Alighiero Boetti (1940-94) at Mazzoleni packs a double punch.
Upstairs is an excellent museum-quality show featuring works from some of his
best-known series, including ballpoint-pen drawings, a map, a postcard work and
embroideries from the Tutto series. Downstairs, however, is a collection of
archival materials from the collection of co-curator Rinaldo Rossi, who worked
with Boetti for 30 years. It includes postcards, correspondence, sketches,
photographs and a cushion made by Boetti as a gift for guests at his second
wedding in 1990, embroidered with the names Alighiero e Catherina. Here we are
treated to an insight into the artist’s personal life, mind and working
processes.
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