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阿里吉耶罗·波提-
Alighiero Boetti * – Zeitgenössische Kunst I-
(Turin 1940–1994 Rome)
Perché la testa è amica del piede ed entrambe di lune e maree (Because the head is friend of the foot and both of moons and tides), 1988, signed and dated on the reverse, embroidery on canvas mounted on board, 29.5 x 29.5 cm, in plexiglass case
This work is accompanied by a photo certificate signed by the artist
This work is registered in the Archivio Alighiero Boetti, Rome and is accompanied by a photo certificate of authenticity
Provenance:
Galleria Ariete Arte Contemporanea, Lecco (label on the reverse)
European Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1989)
I designed some 150 words that could be arranged in a square.
Today when I come across expressions like “la forza del centro” (the force of the center), a yoga concept, I know intuitively that the number of its letters allows it to form a square.
I produced up to a hundred examples of each of these pieces. Each one is different in coloring and the special style of the woman who made it. So it is neither an original work nor a multiple.
(“Afghanistan”, Alighiero Boetti interviewed by Nicolas Bourriaud, in Documents, no. 1, October 1992)
