Dama

Boetti's Dama works demonstrate the artist's developing preoccupation with the representation of the tension between order and disorder and between randomness and certainty, which became such a dominate themes in his oeuvre. This work is one of the assemblages Boetti began to make from 1966, using materials that referenced everyday objects: aluminium, cement fire-bricks, PVC and wood. Made in 1967, it echoes a game of dominoes, where the chance occurrence of numbers propels the game to its finish. However, Boetti has deliberately and playfully frustrated this process to create a system where the configuration of tiny dots and crosses on each cube occurs only once within the work. In so doing, he obscures the means to understand the work, producing instead a painstakingly developed randomness.