Alighiero Boetti

(Italian, 1940–1994)

senza titolo (extra-strong) by alighiero boetti

Alighiero Boetti

Senza titolo (Extra-Strong), 1981

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Alighiero Boetti

Composizione, 1989

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Biography

Timeline

1940
Born in Turin, Italy
1967
Joined the Arte Povera movement in January
1972
Moved to Rome, where he discovered the pleasure of light and colours, far from the austerity of Turin
1994
Died in Rome, Italy

Exhibitions

2012
Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan, Tate Modern, London, England (solo)
Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (solo)
Alighiero Boetti: Tutto, Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2010
Alighiero e Boetti: Insicuro Noncurante, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2009
Mappe, Galerie di Meo, Paris, France
Orientamento, Galleria Cardi, Pietrasanta, Italy
Alighiero e Boetti: Mappa, Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Alighiero e Boetti, Museo di Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples, Italy (solo)
2008
Order and Disorder, Museum Ritter-Sammlung Marli Hoppe-Ritter, Waldenbuch, Germany (solo)
Eurasia: Dissolvenze geografiche dell’arte, Museo di Art Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Roverto, Rovereto, Italy
Red Sky, Luhring Augustine, New York, USA
2007
Après la pluie, Musée départmental d'art contemporain, Rochechouart, France
Italian Visions: 40 Years of Art, Vivian Horan Fine Art, New York, USA
Volare, Corsoveneziaotto Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Arte Povera, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein
Numerica, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Italy
Music to my Eyes, esso gallery, New York, USA
Edward Tyler Nahem, New York, USA
Alighiero e Boetti, Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2006
Alighiero e Boetti: Insicuro Noncurante, La Case D’Arte, Milan, Italy (solo)
Im Anfang war das Wort, Langenscheidt KG, Munich, Germany
Wrestle, CCS Bard/Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA
Italian Modernism: Balla to Boetti, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, USA
Cieli Ad Alta Quota, Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
Il Buco, Pio Monti, Rome, Italy
Alighiero Boetti: Un Pozzo Senza Fine, Embroideries, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, England (solo)
2005
Looking at Words, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA
Open Systems: Rethinking Art c.1970, Tate Modern, London, England
Ordering the Ordinary, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, England
Arte Povera, Galerie Di Meo, Paris, France
2004
Alighiero e Boetti, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2003
Alighiero e Boetti. Ordere et désordre du monde ouvres 1967-1990, Frac Bourgogne, Dijon, France (solo)
2002
Alighiero Boetti. Villa Paleotti Isolani, Minerbio, Bologna, Italy (solo)
Alighiero Boetti, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA (solo)
Alighiero Boetti. Works 1966/1988, Monika Spruth – Philomene Magers, Munich, Germany (solo)
Simmetria Asimmetria. Sperone Westwater, New York, USA (solo)
Alighiero e Boetti, Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, USA (solo)
20 years Galerie Steinek, Vienna, Austria

Literature

2005
Niente Tutto, exhibition catalogue, Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, essay by Kristin Schmidt and Cordula von Keller, 2005
“L’art du Xxe Siecle: De l’art Moderne a l’art Contemporian 1939- 2002”, Citadelles and Mazenod, Paris
2001
Boetti, Annemarie Sauzeau, Alighiero e Boetti, “Shaman-Showman”, Umberto Allemandi & C., 2001.
"Green on Greene," Sperone Westwater, New York (ex.cat.)
2000
Le Temps, vite, Exhibition catalogue by Jean-Pierre Criqui, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, (Editions du Centre Pompidou, 2000)
da Warhol al 2000, Palazzo Cavour, Regione Piemonte, exhibition catalogue, 2000, p. 64.
Gian Enzo Sperone; Torino, Roma, New York; 35 Anni di Mostra tra Europa e America, 2000, pp. 52, 136-137, 145, 166, 200, 255.
Pugliese, Marina, Le Tecniche e I Materiali Nell'Arte Contemporanea, Arti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, 2000.
1999
Allianz & Kunst, catalogue of the collection of Bayerische Versicherungsbank AG, Allianz Versicherungs-AG, with forewords by Dr. Michael Albert and Harald Szeemann, Anderland Verlag, München, 1999.
1998
Change of Scene XIII, exhibition brochure by Jean-Christophe Ammann, Frankfurt: Museum für Moderne Kunst, 1998).