Mappa di alighiero boetti biography
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Mappa di alighiero boetti biography
Alighiero Boetti
Italian conceptual artist (–)
Alighiero Boetti | |
|---|---|
| Born | Alighiero Fabrizio Boetti ()16 December Turin, Italy |
| Died | 24 April () (aged&#;53) Rome, Italy |
| Known&#;for | Painting Mixed media |
| Movement | Arte Povera |
Alighiero Fabrizio Boetti, known as Alighiero e Boetti (16 December – 24 February ) was an Italian conceptual artist, considered to be a member of the art movement Arte Povera.
Background
Boetti is most famous for a series of embroidered maps of the world, Mappa, created between and his death in Boetti's work was typified by his notion of 'twinning', leading him to add 'e' (and) between his names, 'stimulating a dialectic exchange between these two selves'.[1]
Life
Alighiero Boetti was born in Turin, to Corrado Boetti, a lawyer, and Adelina Marchisio, a violinist.
Boetti abandoned his studies at the business school of the University of Turin to work as an artist. Already in his early years, he had profound