Oggi sedicesimo giorno dell'ottavo mese dell'anno 1988

Details

Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994)
Oggi sedicesimo giorno dell'ottavo mese dell'anno 1988
dated '16 Agosto 1988' (on the overlap)
embroidery on canvas
43 3/8 x 45 3/8in. (110 x 115cm.)
Executed in 1988

Provenance

Matteo Boetti Collection, Rome.
Private Collection, Rome.

Special Notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Further Details

This work is registered in the Archivo Alighiero Boetti, Rome, under no. 5788.

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Lot Essay

'I am interested in primary matters, such as the alphabet, the map, the newspaper, among other things owing to the spring which thus tautens between order and disorder. There is an exact order innate in each and every thing, even if it manifests in a disorderly manner.' Alighiero Boetti (L. Rolf, Alighiero Boetti: mettere al mondo il mondo, Cantz, 1998, p. 29.)

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