Alighiero Boetti

(1940 - 1994)

 

Alighiero Fabrizio Boetti known as Alighiero e Boetti was an Italian conceptual artist, considered to be a member of the art movement Arte Povera.

Boetti is most famous for a series of embroidered maps of the world, Mappa, created between 1971 and his death in 1994. Boetti's work was typified by his notion of 'twinning', leading him to add 'e' (and) between his names, 'stimulating a dialectic exchange between these two selves'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alighiero_Boetti

Oggi diciannovesimo giorno ottavo mese dell'anno millenove100ottantotto

(Today the Nineteenth Day of the Eighth Month of the Year OneThousandNine100Eighty-Eight)

1988

cotton embroidery (Bokhara couching) on cotton/linen fabric

112.5 × 104 cm

National Gallery of Art, Washington

https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.222050.html