Alighiero Boetti
Alfabeto (Scrittura a due mani) expresses Boetti’s growing interest in conceptual art and performance. As part of the 1970s video survey Identifications organised by Gerry Schum, Boetti stood with his back to the camera and wrote on the wall with both hands simultaneously the sentence ‘giovedì ventiquattro settembre mille novecento settanta (Thursday the twentieth of September one thousand nine hundred and seventy)’, that day’s date. Recalling this performance, in Alfabeto (Scrittura a due mani) the letters of the alphabet are written in succession with two hands simultaneously.
Provenance
Studio Morra, Naples (stamp on the Artist’s photo certificate)
Valentino Barbierato, Asiago
Private Collection, Italy
Dorotheum, Vienna, 22 November 2016, lot 747
Private collection, London
Exhibitions
Estrategia de jego, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, October 2011/February 2012
Game Plan, Tate Modern, London, February 2012 / May 2012
Game Plan, MoMA, New York, July 2012 / October 2012
Magie Straordinarie, Sprovieri, London, 2017
Literature
Alighiero Boetti. Catalogo generale, Tomo primo. Opere 1961-1971, J.-C. Ammann, Electa, Milan, 2009 (illustrated in colour, p.275 no. 346)
Alighiero Boetti, Game Plan, Tate Publishing, London 2012 (illustrated p. 83)
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