Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994)
Lot 63

Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994)

Tutto

Closed14 October 2011

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GBP 289,250

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Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994)
Tutto
embroidered tapestry
32 x 52¼in. (81.2 x 132.7cm.)
Executed in 1988

Matteo Boetti, Rome (acquired directly from the artist).
Anon. sale, Christie's New York, 12 May 2004, lot 405.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

This work is registered in the Archivio Alighiero Boetti, Rome, under no. 2722.



Tutto is the sum of all human experiences and things, while nevertheless remaining only a section cut from the large whole that is the world. Tutto is the language of the world, forms and colours, languages and signs. Tutto stands for the impossibility of consciously perceiving everything visible. Tutto links the organic to the inorganic world. Tutto is the order in disorder and the disorder in order. Tutto is the symbolic unity of body and mind, the connection of East and West, South and North. Tutto is a symbol for unlimited human creativity. Tutto is the fragment and the multiplicity of the world. Tutto is the structure of both macrocosm and microcosm.'
(Rolf Lauter, Boetti, exh. cat., Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt Am Main, 1998, p. 93).