Live Auction 10171Eyes Wide Open: An Italian Vision
Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994)
Lot 33

Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994)

Addizione Addition

Closed11 February 2014

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GBP 1,706,500

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Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994)
Addizione
Addition
embroidery
54¾ x 58¾in. (138 x 149cm.)
Executed in 1974

This work is registered in the Archivio Alighiero Boetti, Rome, under no. 379.

Galleria Notizie Arte Contemporanea, Turin.
Studio Casoli, Milan.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

An embroidery of beautiful dimensions, excellent date and provenance, in perfect condition: when our paths crossed, we had already been immersed in the study of Boetti's art for some time. It was impossible not to acquire it: you only had to look at it and you were unable to resist. Extremely beautiful in the colours that are intense, yet restrained at the same time, typical of the early embroideries. Within the grid so characteristic of Boetti, Addizione (Addition) develops in a vertical direction:
numbers +
numbers +
numbers + ....
Nothing could give a better idea of the mathematical operation, in terms of concept. Boetti's simplicity is as disarming as it is fascinating.