Alighiero e Boetti (1940-1994)
Alighiero e Boetti (1940-1994)

Undici Giorno

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Alighiero e Boetti (1940-1994)
Undici Giorno
signed, titled, inscribed and dated 'alighiero e boetti UNDICI GIORNO PESHAWAR 1988' (on the overlap)
embroidered tapestry
43½ x 42 1/8 in. (110.5 x 107 cm.)
Executed in 1988. This work is accompanied by a photo-certificate signed by the artist.
Exhibited
Stuttgart, Galerei Kaess-Weiss, Alighiero e Boetti, May-June 1990 (illustrated)
Frankfurt am Main, Museum für Moderne Kunst; Galerie Jahrhunderthalle Hoechst vom, Alighiero e Boetti: Mettere al Mondo il Mondo, January-April 1998, p. 336
Sale room notice
This work is recorded in the Boetti archives as No.88/RL/27.

Lot Essay

The painting translates as, "today is the eleventh day of the sixth month of the year 1000 ninehundredeightyeight next to the beloved Pantheon imagining everything - centers of thought - for new wishes - the reflexive verbs - the sweet doing nothing - fused but not confused - Alighiero e Boetti - it takes the mouth water - rule and regulate oneself - respects and annoyances - the secure and the insecure - I don't leave and I don't stay - essence and substance - to make everything square - to be hungry for wind - to give time time - the new autonomies - unexpectedly - Peshawar Pakistan - to be thirsty for fire - to piss in one's mouth - from form to truth - touches and (bell) tollings - order and disorder - to read vertically - the irregular words - normal and anormal - silence is golden - encounters and collisions - between dog and wolf - to kill time - covered and uncovered things - Peshawar Pakistan"

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