Alighiero Boetti Italian, 1940-1994
Giocare, 1978
Ballpoint pen on paper laid down on canvas
70 x 100 cm; (27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in.)
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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.
Provenance
Marco Noire Contemporary Art, TurinPrivate Collection, Milan
Exhibitions
Hong Kong, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Alighiero Boetti, 9 March - 30 April 2021Publications
Jean-Christophe Ammann, Alighiero Boetti, Catalogo generale, Opere 1972 - 1979, Milan 2012, vol. II, p. 293, no. 960, illustrated in colour6
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