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Lot Essay
In 1969, Boetti produced a series of works with pencil on squared paper entitled 'IL CIMENTO DELL'ARMONIA E DELL'INVENZIONE' ('The Risk of Harmony and Invention') where the artist re-traced, freehand, all the outlines of the pre-existing squares on twenty-five sheets of graph paper, moving in different directions each time, and sometimes even recording sound made during the making of the work. The sheets were then formally presented for the viewer to leaf through them, searching for a harmony in the sequence that cannot exist.
'Quattro ore di un pomeriggio' was made in the same year as this series and using exactly the same method. The title, meaning 'four hours of an afternoon', refers to the length of time it took to make the work. This endeavour is an intriguing expression of the artist's mission to subject the image to radical investigation in terms of mathematical logic, a project with a defined beginning and end, but with an infinite variety of possibilities in between.
'Quattro ore di un pomeriggio' was made in the same year as this series and using exactly the same method. The title, meaning 'four hours of an afternoon', refers to the length of time it took to make the work. This endeavour is an intriguing expression of the artist's mission to subject the image to radical investigation in terms of mathematical logic, a project with a defined beginning and end, but with an infinite variety of possibilities in between.