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Alighiero Boetti

Fiber and Textile Artists

Alighiero Fabrizio Boetti (1940 to 1994) was an Italian artist born in Turin who died in Rome. He was associated with the Arte Povera movement before disassociating himself from it in 1972. He is most celebrated for a series of embroidered world maps, Mappa, created from 1971 until his death, each map showing every country filled with its own national flag; the maps were embroidered by artisans in Afghanistan and Pakistan and changed over the two decades as national borders and flags shifted. He renamed himself Alighiero e Boetti, using the word for and to embody the dualities running through his work, such as the individual set against society and order set against disorder.

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Gender
Male 1
Active From Year
1963 1
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Painting, Art Forms
Source Wikipedia: Alighiero Boetti
Sculpture, Art Forms
Source Wikipedia: Alighiero Boetti
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Italy

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Turin

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1. Wikipedia: Alighiero Boetti
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    Alighiero Fabrizio Boetti, known as Alighiero e Boetti (16 December 1940-24 April 1994) was an Italian painter, sculptor and conceptual artist, considered to be a member of the art movement Arte Povera.
  • Arte Povera
    From 1963 to 1965, Boetti began to create works out of then unusual materials such as plaster, masonite, plexiglass, light fixtures and other industrial materials.
  • In Group: Contemporary and Conceptual Fiber Artists, Lead
    Alighiero Fabrizio Boetti, known as Alighiero e Boetti (16 December 1940-24 April 1994) was an Italian painter, sculptor and conceptual artist, considered to be a member of the art movement Arte Povera.
  • Practices: Painting, Lead
    was an Italian painter, sculptor and conceptual artist, considered to be a member of the art movement Arte Povera
  • Practices: Sculpture, Lead
    was an Italian painter, sculptor and conceptual artist, considered to be a member of the art movement Arte Povera
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Wikidata: Alighiero Boetti
Wikidata Q556337, class allow-list match (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926 resolve_missing)View the Source
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