21.02.09 | 11.05.09

Oeuvre postale 1993 Alternating One to One Hundred and Vice Versa 1993 Anno 1990 (Year 1990) 1990 Mappa 1989 - 1992 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 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

Viaggi Postali

1969 - 1970

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The two works both originate from the same system of sending and then resending the same letter which the artist began in 1969. The recipients were 25 of the artist’s friends and colleagues (the first was Giulio Paolini), but they were destined never to receive the letters because the addresses were wrong or non-existent. Once he had determined a specific voyage for each of the letters, Boetti sent off the first one. When the letters were returned to sender by the Post Office, the artist put each of them in another larger envelope and sent them off on the next stage of their journey. When they were again returned to sender, he repeated the process in an even bigger envelope. The letters with the addressee’s name on it travel to unknown countries around the world, passing through different people’s hands and when they return to the sender they retain something, a trace or a clue, of the journey they have made and the places they have visited. Although the relationship between sender and recipient remains virtual in this case, or rather impossible, the memory of the person is always present, urging the imagination of the artist to continue with resending the letters. Something similar to this surrealistc game inpires in 1973-75 Boetti's postal work with postcards of La Mole Antonelliana sent to artist's friends from the most differnt places of the globe.

 

La Mole Antonelliana

1973 - 1975

Dossier Postale (Postal dossier)

1970 - 1971

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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