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Alighiero Boetti was an Italian conceptual artist and member of the Arte Povera movement. In 1940 he dropped out of business school to study art independently. He used a variety of materials for his work including ball point pens and postal stamps. Between 1968 and 1994 the artist created somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 maps. Many of the maps were embroidered by artisans in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He also collaborated with them to create other designs including the series, “Wordâ€. He writes this about art:Â
“Remember to do things that have an inner simplicity, like the sound two small brass symbols make when they strike. This is what needs to make sense of things today. A work is valid when its mechanism is simple and when it is perceived as simple and spontaneous by the viewer, for whom the simplicity of something born from nothing can be astonishing. Depending on who hears it, a small sound such as this can mean a lot or very little.â€
You can learn more about the artist here on the Alighiero Boetti Archive is a Cultural Association founded in 1995 on the initiative of the artist’s family.
Images:Â Courtesy of various sources.
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