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拍品专文
Senza titolo (Speciale Dalí) (Untitled (Dalí Special)) is one of an extensive series of works on paper articulating the thoughts, rhythms and ephemera of his day-to-day studio life in Rome that Boetti made during the last years of his life. Executed in 1991, this work, like another from this period, Senza titolo (morto Salvador Dali) of 1989, adopts as its chief subject matter a magazine image of the Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dalí. Here, in the manner of his Copertina drawings, Boetti has included a painstakingly traced pencil drawing of a special 1989 issue of the magazine Vernissage dedicated to Dalí who had died that same year.
In addition to this dominating magazine image taken from the fast-paced, multi-media world outside Boetti’s studio, Speciale Dalí also incorporates a range of other drawings, writings, prints and painted marks. These include a careful tracing of a National Lottery Ticket, a mysterious note announcing that ‘Ernest T tries by all means to become an international artist’ and a series of handwritten phrases outlining Boetti’s personal life and thoughts of the moment. These personal statements seem wholly independent from all the other collated imagery taken from the busy world outside the studio.
It is in this way that Boetti seems to offer up a mirror between the inner world of his thoughts and studio existence and that of the exterior world, whose perpetual flux of life, fragmentary imagery and media communications coincides with and to some extent permeates his own. Boetti said of another similar series of works on paper that he made at this time that they were ‘a kind of visual diary based on work, notes and just daily jottings. It is a space where I can put everything … my own things, other people’s, postcards, information ... a way to represent the fragmentation of the life we live nowadays’ (A. Boetti, quoted in M. Godfrey, Alighiero e Boetti, London 2011, p. 281).
In addition to this dominating magazine image taken from the fast-paced, multi-media world outside Boetti’s studio, Speciale Dalí also incorporates a range of other drawings, writings, prints and painted marks. These include a careful tracing of a National Lottery Ticket, a mysterious note announcing that ‘Ernest T tries by all means to become an international artist’ and a series of handwritten phrases outlining Boetti’s personal life and thoughts of the moment. These personal statements seem wholly independent from all the other collated imagery taken from the busy world outside the studio.
It is in this way that Boetti seems to offer up a mirror between the inner world of his thoughts and studio existence and that of the exterior world, whose perpetual flux of life, fragmentary imagery and media communications coincides with and to some extent permeates his own. Boetti said of another similar series of works on paper that he made at this time that they were ‘a kind of visual diary based on work, notes and just daily jottings. It is a space where I can put everything … my own things, other people’s, postcards, information ... a way to represent the fragmentation of the life we live nowadays’ (A. Boetti, quoted in M. Godfrey, Alighiero e Boetti, London 2011, p. 281).