Alighiero Boetti *
(Turin 1940–1994 Rome)
Giogare, 1976, signed alighiero e boetti on the reverse, black ink on paper laid down on canvas, 71 x 101, cm, framed
Photo certificate:
Archivio Alighiero Boetti, Rome, no. 76/BP/2
Provenance:
Private Collection, Italy
Christie’s Milan, 25 November 1996, lot 285
European Private Collection
Literature:
Jean Christophe Amman, Alighiero Boetti. Catalogo generale, Mondadori Electa, Milan 2009, vol. II, p. 220, no. 782 with ill.
A ballpoint pen, or biro, is one of the most common tools we use to communicate in writing. A ballpoint pen does not have any particular aesthetic value, if not for artists. Boetti rendered it the means by which to “bring the world into the world” to reinvent the language of art, and language in general. In his universe of meaning, ballpoint pens also served to dispel better the distinctive, unique, and inimitable act in the sea of collective and anonymous signs that is the basic intention of Boetti’s art.
Giorgio Verzotti, Alighiero Boetti. Quasi tutto, p.67
31.05.2017 - 19:00
- Estimate:
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EUR 80,000.- to EUR 100,000.-
Alighiero Boetti *
(Turin 1940–1994 Rome)
Giogare, 1976, signed alighiero e boetti on the reverse, black ink on paper laid down on canvas, 71 x 101, cm, framed
Photo certificate:
Archivio Alighiero Boetti, Rome, no. 76/BP/2
Provenance:
Private Collection, Italy
Christie’s Milan, 25 November 1996, lot 285
European Private Collection
Literature:
Jean Christophe Amman, Alighiero Boetti. Catalogo generale, Mondadori Electa, Milan 2009, vol. II, p. 220, no. 782 with ill.
A ballpoint pen, or biro, is one of the most common tools we use to communicate in writing. A ballpoint pen does not have any particular aesthetic value, if not for artists. Boetti rendered it the means by which to “bring the world into the world” to reinvent the language of art, and language in general. In his universe of meaning, ballpoint pens also served to dispel better the distinctive, unique, and inimitable act in the sea of collective and anonymous signs that is the basic intention of Boetti’s art.
Giorgio Verzotti, Alighiero Boetti. Quasi tutto, p.67
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| Auction: | Contemporary Art I |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction |
| Date: | 31.05.2017 - 19:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 20.05. - 31.05.2017 |