Lot 21
21
Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994)
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Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994)

(i) Ammazzare il Tempo (Nove Quadrati) (ii) Il Dolce Far Niente (Nove Quadrati) (iii) I Verbi Riflessivi (Nove Quadrati) (iv) Far Quadrare Tutto (Nove Quadrati)

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Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994)
(i) Ammazzare il Tempo (Nove Quadrati)
(ii) Il Dolce Far Niente (Nove Quadrati)
(iii) I Verbi Riflessivi (Nove Quadrati)
(iv) Far Quadrare Tutto (Nove Quadrati)
watercolour on handmade paper, in four parts
each: 7¼ x 7½in. (18.5 x 19cm.)
(4)Executed in 1979
Provenance
Salvatore + Caroline Ala Gallery, Milan.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in the 1980s.
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
(i) This work is registered in the Archivio Alighiero Boetti, Rome under no. 7537
(ii) This work is registered in the Archivio Alighiero Boetti, Rome under no. 7533
(iii) This work is registered in the Archivio Alighiero Boetti, Rome under no. 7541
(iv) This work is registered in the Archivio Alighiero Boetti, Rome under no. 7540

Lot Essay

‘One of the most obvious mistakes of our culture is the divisions it makes in the oneness and wholeness of the world with rigid classifcations: like the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdom and so on. It’s a mental category, a separation, which I feel obscures and veils all possibility of understanding things. In its pretence to explain, it only serves to nullify a broad scope of understanding things... We then need to perceive this oneness in things, instead of always dividing them into categories and classifcations, and above all antitheses of the good/bad, black/white kind’ (A. Boetti, quoted in ‘Today to Tomorrow,’ 1988, Alighiero e Boetti: Bringing the World into Art 1993-1962, exh. cat., MADRE, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples, 2009, p. 209)

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