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Oeuvre postale 1993 Alternating One to One Hundred and Vice Versa 1993 Anno 1990 (Year 1990) 1990 Cartoline astratte 1987 Codice: Eritrea libera 1975 La Mole Antonelliana 1973 - 1975 Serie di merli disposti a intervalli regolari lungo gli spalti di una muraglia ( Serie di merli disposti a intervalli regolari lungo gli spalti di una muraglia 1971 - 1993 Permutazione e disegni (Lavoro Postale) 1973 Autodisporsi (Lavoro postale) (Placing oneself – Postal work) 1972 Otto lettere dall'Afghanistan Otto lettere dall'Afganistan 1972 Viaggi Postali 1969 - 1970 Dossier Postale (Postal dossier) 1970 - 1971 Lampada annuale 1966 Niente da vedere nulla da nascondere 1969 / 1986 Colonna 1968 Mimetico 1967 12 forme a partire dal 10 giugno 1967 1967 - 1971 Territori occupati Territori occupati 1969 Ordine e disordine 1973 AW:AB=L:MD 1967 Gemelli 1968 Shaman Showman 1968 Io che prendo il sole a Torino il 19 Gennaio 1969 1969 / 1992 Cimento dell'armonia e dell'invenzione 1969 Strumento musicale 1970 The Sighted 1967 Pile 1966 Untitled (Radial Turntable, Zenithal Turntable) 1969 Untitled (Stella Performance) 1969 Petite composition en bois 1962 Senza Titolo 1965 Untitled 1965 Insicuro noncurante 1972 - 1976 Mettere al mondo il mondo 1972 - 1973 Onomino 1973 Iter-vallo 1969 / 1986 AEB 197 la metà e il doppio 1974 Autodisporsi 1974 Autodisporsi 1974 Storia naturale della moltiplicazione 1974 - 1975 Ciò che sempre parla in silenzio è il corpo 1975 Tracce del racconto 1976 I sei sensi 1973 Il dolce far niente 1975 Order and disorder 1979 Vento 1985 Wind 1985 The thousand longest rivers in the world - project 1975 Classifying, the thousand longest rivers in the world 1977 Nature, an obtuse matter 1980 Twenty-five times twenty-five six-hundred twenty-five letters 1988 La natura, una faccenda ottusa[Nature, an obtuse matter] 1980 Animal Kingdom – Within oneself 1978 Musical Kingdom – Within oneself 1979 Kingdom of maps – Within oneself 1979 Tra sé e sé [Within oneself] 1987 Everything) 1988 Self-portrait 1993 / 1996

Alighiero Boetti

Mappa

1989 - 1992

Courtesy :

A camouflaged, changing, alternating geographical landscape; territories that have been lost or won at the tables of politics or international diplomacy changing hands. These are the Maps of the terrestrial globe that Boetti produces after discovering Afghanistan and its artisan tradition. He started with a drawing of a geo-political planisphere (1969) and then in 1972 started a series of works where the image is not born of his imagination but as a result of others’ actions or pre-existing facts, like the national state flags. The territory of the individual nation is replaced by a pattern created from the corresponding flags and changes according to political conditions. Another thing that changes is the continual updating of the lie of the land. The border brings us back to Italian, where we can see the signature, date, place where the work was done and any dedications or narrative elements.
The Map on display here was designed in 1989 after the fall of the Berlin wall and the reunification of Germany. During the time it took to complete the work, however, lots of other events in world history also occurred. In 1990 the new Nation State of Namibia was declared, which the artist had left blank since 1979 as if unwilling to recognise the previous South African protectorate. In 1991 the Russian Federation was constituted and took as its flag the white, blue and red horizontal stripes that Peter the Great had used. This was why the artist decided to modify the map and send it to the embroiderers in Peshawar.

Torino 1940 | Roma 1994
I always find myself talking about the notion of double, which […] is present in all my work. The truth is that it is a natural reality: it is incontrovertible that a cell ...
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ITALY Milano - 2009
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