BOÉTTI, ALIGHIERO. - ITALIAN CONCEPTUAL ARTIST (TURIN 1940 - ROME 1994). AN EXPONENT OF ARTE POVERA, A TIRELESS EXPERIMENTER, B. ANALYZED THE THEMES OF ALTERNATION, CONTRAST, DOUBLES AND ONE'S OWN IDENTITY (SIGNIFICANTLY HE SPLITS HIS NAME INTO ALIGHIERO & BOETTI). WORKS INCLUDE: EVERYTHING (1987, EMBROIDERY), SELF-PORTRAIT (1993, BRONZE AND ELECTRIC AND HYDRAULIC DEVICE
HAS PARTICIPATED IN MAJOR CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITIONS (WHEN ATTITUDES BECOME FORM, 1969, BERNE, LONDON, KREFELD; DOCUMENTA IN KASSEL, 1972, 1982; SAN PAOLO BIENNALE, 1975; VENICE BIENNALE, SINCE 1976; ETC. ), AND RELEVANT RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITIONS OF HIS WORK HAVE BEEN PRESENTED AT THE GALLERIA CIVICA IN TURIN (1996), AT THE GALLERIA NAZIONALE D'ARTE MODERNA IN ROME (1996-97), AS WELL AS AT THE MUSEUM FÜR MODERNE KUNST IN FRANKFURT (1998), THE WHITECHAPEL ART GALLERY IN LONDON (1999) AND AT THE VENICE BIENNALE IN 2001 AND AT THE GALLERIA D'ARTE MODERNA E CONTEMPORANEA IN BERGAMO (2004). IN 2009 AN EXHIBITION CURATED BY A. BONITO OLIVA AT THE MUSEO MADRE IN NAPLES PRESENTED BACKWARDS THE ARTIST'S WORK IN THE CHRONOLOGICAL SPAN FROM 1993 TO 1962, WHILE AMONG THE MOST RECENT EXHIBITIONS IT IS STILL NECESSARY TO MENTION THE LARGE RETROSPECTIVE HELD AT THE MUSEO REINA SOFIA IN MADRID (2011) AND TRANSFERRED THE FOLLOWING YEAR TO THE TATE MODERN IN LONDON AND TO THE MOMA IN NEW YORK, AND THE EXHIBITION ALIGHIERO BOETTI A ROMA HOSTED AT THE MAXXI (
OK2013).
