Boetti's biro series, begun in 1972 and continued through the 1980s, encompassed many of the ideas that were most important to the artist: collaboration, order and disorder, coded language, wordplay,...
Boetti's biro series, begun in 1972 and continued through the 1980s, encompassed many of the ideas that were most important to the artist: collaboration, order and disorder, coded language, wordplay, double meanings and cerebral engagement. The biro works were executed with standard, inexpensive ballpoint pens (perhaps a nod to Boetti's roots in the Arte Povera movement) by assistants instructed to take turns making rows of meticulous hatch marks, filling large sheets of paper, with the exclusion of letters and symbols that were left as exposed white ground.