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Born in Turin, Italy in 1940, he lived and worked in Rome, where he died on April 24, 1994. His work has been exhibited widely since 1967, across Europe as well as in the United States.
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
1970 "Besprechungsvortrag," Aktionsraum 1, Munich
1973 Art & Project, Amsterdam
1974 Kunstmuseum, Lucerne
Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Turin
1975 Kunstmuseum Luzern
1977 Centre d'art contemporain, Geneva
1978 Kunsthalle Basel, curated by Jean-Christophe Amman
1979 Studio D'Arte TxT, Rimini
1984 Boetti Retrospective, Pinacoteca Communale Loggetta Lombardesca, Ravenna
Facolta 'Di Architettura, Rome
Pinacoteca di Ravenna-Antologica, Ravenna
1985 Pinacoteca comunale di Ravenna (retrospective exh.), Ravenna
Incontri Internazionali D'Art, Rome
1986 "Insicurononcurante," Noveau Musee, Lyon
Stedelijk Van Abben Museum Antologica, Eindhoven, Belgium
1990 "XLIV Biennale di Venezia," Venice
Museo Casabianca, Malo
1992-93 "Synchronizitat als ein Prinzip akausaler Zusammenhange," Kunstverein, Bonn; Westfalischer Kunstverein, Munster; Kunstmuseum, Lucerne.
1993 "Alternating 1 to 100 and Vice Versa," Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California; P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City, New York
1994 "Alighiero e Boetti," taking place within the project, "Origin and Destination,"
Societe des Expositions du Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Brussels
1996-97 Musee d'Art Moderne, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France; Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
1998 "Alighiero Boetti: Mettere al mondo il mondo," Museums für Moderne Kunst, and Galerie Jahrhunderthalle Hoechst, Frankfurt am Main,
2002 "Alighiero e Boetti: ‘Simmetria Asimmetria’ (‘Biro’ Works from the 70’s and 80’s),” Sperone Westwater, New York
"Alighiero e Boetti,” The Arts Club of Chicago
2004 Alighiero e Boetti, “Quasi Tutto (Almost Everything),” Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy; Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires
“Alighiero e Boetti,” Caratsch dePury & Luxembourg, Zurich
Selected Group Exhibitions:
1967 "Arte Povera," Galleria La Bertesca, Genoa; University of Genoa; Galleria De Foscherari, Bologna; Centro Arte Viva Feltrinelli, Trieste
1968 "Prospect 68," Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf
1969 "When Attitudes Become Form," Kunsthalle, Bern; Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld; ICA, London
"Konzeption/Conception," Stadtisches Museum, Leverkusen
"Prospect 69," Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf
1970 "La Fotografia creativa," Centro La Capella, Trieste
"Vitalita 'del Negativo dell' Arte Italiana 1960-1970," Palazzo delle Esposizione di Roma, Rome
"Besprechungsvortrag - Love's Body," Aktionsraum 1, Munich
"Identification," Video Galerie Gerry Schum, Hannover
"3a Biennale della giovane pittura," Bologna
"Processi di pensiero visualizzati," Kunstmuseum, Lucerne
"Conceptual Art/Arte Povera/Land Art," Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin
"3e Salon International des Galeries Pilotes," Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
1971 "Formulation," Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
"Arte povera," Kunstverein, Munich
"Persona," Internationales Theaterfestival Belgrad, Belgrade
"7e Biennale de Paris," Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
"Informazioni sulla presenza italiana," Incontri Internationali d'Arte, Rome
1972 "Documenta 5," Kassel, Germany
"XXXVI Biennale di Venezia," Venice
"420 West Broadway," Festival of Two Worlds, Spoleto
"7 Italiani," MTL Bruxelles/ \Art and Project, Amsterdam
"X Quadriennale," Rome
1974 "Eight Contemporary Artists," Museum of Modern Art, New York
1975 "VIIIe Biennale de S. Paolo," Sao Paulo
University of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
1976 "Prospectretrospect, Europa 1946 - 1976," Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf
Galleria Franz Paludetto-LP220, Turin
1977 "Contrasto apparente - 16 italiani," Museum Boymans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
1978 Kunstverein, Basel
"Ars Combinatioria-Omaggio a Fahlstrom," Galleria Communale d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna
"The Room," Castelo Colonna di Gemazzano, Gemazzano
1979 "Words," Museum Bochum, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Palazzo Ducale, Genova
Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva
1980 "Ut pictura poesis," Loggetta Lomberdesca, Ravenna
"Pier Ocean," Hayward Gallery, London; Reijksmuseum, Kroller-Muller, Otterloo, the Netherlands
"Construction in the art of the seventies," Rijksmuseum Kroller - Muller, Otterlo
Biennale di Venezia, Venice
1981 "Avanguardia Transavanguardia," Mura Aureliana, Rome
"Documenta 7," Kassel
"Duetto - Alighiero Boetti & Ettore Sottsass," A.A.M. Coop, Rome
"Identite Italienne, L'art en Italie depuis 1959," Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1983 "Carla Accardi - Alighiero Boetti," Padiglione
"Eine Kunstgeschichte aus Turin 1965 - 83," Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
"30 Italian Artists: 1950-1983," Chiesa di S. Samuele, Venice
"Il Grande Disegno," Comune di Fiesole, Fiesole
"Imago," Galleria Civica d'Arte Contemporanea di Suzzara, Suzzara
1984 "Il modo italiano," California State University, Los Angeles, California
"Interventi di Boetti e Schifano," University of Rome, Department of Architecture, Rome
"Sein und Sehnsucht," Kunstverein Kassel, Kassel
"Coerenza in coerenza - dall'arte povera al 1984," Mole Antonella, Turin
"Imago," PAC, Ferrara
"Esposizione disegni," Galleria Communale d'Arte Contemporanea, Bologna
1985 "Arte povera - dell'arte povera al 1985," Placido de Velazquez, Placido de Cristal, Parc del Retiro, Madrid
"Italienische Kunst," Castello di Rivoli
"Knot Arte Povera," P.S. 1, New York
"On Language and Ecstasy," Alvar Aalto Museo, Jyvaskyla
Porin Taidemuseo, Pori, Finland
"Promenade," Geneva
"Sein und Sehnsucht," Villa Merkel, Esslingen; Kunstverein Kassel
1986 "XLII Biennale di Venezia," Venice
1987 "Disegnata," Loggetta Lomberdesca, Ravenna
"Arte Povera nelle Collezioni publiche in Francia," Musees d'art et d'histoire, Chambery
"Italienische Zeichnungen 1945 - 1987," Kunsstverein, Frankfurt; Galleria Civica, Modena
"Similia Dissimilia, Modes of abstraction...today," Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf
1988 "Forma Urbis, 'Memoria e progetto'," Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome
"Acquisition recentes du frac des pays de la Loire," Nantes
1989 "Ad usum dimorae," Fondazione Querini Stampala, Venice
1989 "L'utilita della bussola inventataa in Amalfi da Flavio Gioia nelle derive dell'arte,"
Antichi Arsenali della Republica, Amalfi
"Magiciens de la Terre," Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
"Raccolta del disegno contemporaneo, Acquisizioni 1989," Galleria Civica di Moderna, Moderna
"L'art conceptual, une perspective, Musee d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
"Artoon," Palazzo degli Uffici, Rome
1990 "Il mondo delle torri," Palazzo Reale, Milan
1991 "L'Arte Povera," Kunstverein, Munich
1992 "Reperti," Museo Nacional de Beles Artes, Rio de Janeiro
1994 "Mapping," The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1994-95 "Worlds Envisioned," Dia Center For The Arts, New York, 1
1994- 8 June 1995, American Center, Paris
"The Italian Metamorphosis, 1943 - 1968," Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
"Terrae Motus Terrae Motus," Palazzo Reale, Caserta, Italy, December
Terrae Motus Terrae Motus," Palazzo Reale, Caserta, Italy
1995-96 "Tradition & Innovation: Italian Art since 1945," National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
1996 "Tenth Biennale of Sidney," Sidney, Australia
1997-98 "Arte Italiana, 1945-1995: il visibile e l'invisibile," Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, 14 November-15 January; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
"Arte Italiana: Ultimi quarant'anni, Pittura iconica," Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
1997-00 "Arte Povera: Arbeiten und Dokumente aus der Sammlung Goetz, 1958 bis heute," Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, June-September; Kunsthalle Nürnberg, October-December; Kölnischer Kunstverein, 13 February-26 April; Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Palais Lichtenstein, Vienna, 19 June-30 August; Konsthalle Göteborg, Sweden, September-October; Sammlung Goetz, Munich (catalogue)
1998 "Szenenwechsel XIII/Change of Scene XIII," Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
"Terra Incognita, Five Visionary Worlds: Alighiero e Boetti, Vija Celmins, Neil
Jenney, Jean-Luc Mylayne, Hiroshi Sugimoto," Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen,
"Alighiero Boetti, Nicola de Maria, Mimmo Paladino," Galleria Cardi, Milan
1998-99 "Unfinished History," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
998-99 "Unfinished History," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
1999 "Ars Aevi,"Exhibition of the Collection. Museum of Contemporary Art, Sarajevo. opening 25 June.
"Arte Povera," Bornholms Kunstmuseum, Helligdommen, Denmark
1999-2000 "World Views: Maps & Art", Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis
"World Views: Maps and Art," Weisman Art Museum
2000 "USF Collects," University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum
2000-2001 "Le Temps, vite," Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Palais des Expositions, Rome; Centre de Culture Contemporaine, Barcelona.
2001 La Biennale di Venezia, Italian Pavillion
"À contretemps," curated by Frac Picardie, Fonds règional d'art contemporain de Picardie, Paris
"Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera," Tate Modern
“Toward Uncertainty,” David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, Providence
2002 “Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera,” MOCA at the Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles
2005 “Open Systems: Rethinking Art c. 1970,” Tate Modern, London, 1 June – 18 September 2005
2006 “Contemporary Masterworks: Saint Louis Collects,” Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, 7 April – 11 June 2006.
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