Movement: Arte Povera
Theme: Other/Unknown theme
Technique: Other/Unknown technique
Museum: Private collection
Location: Rome, Italy
110 x 167 cm
Perhaps Boetti's best known works are the large embroidered maps of the world, called simply Mappa. The maps delineate the political boundaries of the countries, with each of them being embroidered with the design of its national flag. Embroidered by artisans in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the maps were the result of a collaborative process leaving the design to the geopolitical realities of the time, and the choice of colours to the artisans responsible for the embroidery. "For me the work of the embroidered Mappa is the maximum of beauty. For that work I did nothing, chose nothing, in the sense that: the world is made as it is, not as I designed it, the flags are those that exist, and I did not design them; in short I did absolutely nothing; when the basic idea, the concept, emerges everything else requires no choosing." (Alighiero e Boetti, 1974)
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Boetti, Alighiero
Differenza
Date: Not Dated Movement: Arte Povera Theme: Other/Unknown Technique: Other/Unknown
Boetti, Alighiero
Mappa
Date: 1988 Movement: Arte Povera Theme: Other/Unknown Technique: Other/Unknown
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