Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan at the Tate Modern, London, March 2012
Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan at the Tate Modern, London, March 2012 Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994)was an Italian conceptual artist connected to various movements including the Arte Povera movement of radical young Italian artists known for using simple, inexpensive materials such as biro pens, postage stamps and magazine covers. Boetti is an artist like Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) fascinated by alchemical symbols, numbers, esoteric possibly meaningless symbols, keys, codes, ciphers. His work links specific artists to certain symbols. One work links certain Turin artists to specific parts of the city set out in cartographical form with certain colours representing the domain of some artist friend of Boetti, usually another member of the Arte Povera group. As an artist Boetti is Mettera al Mondo il Mondo (giving birth to the world) through works like sei sensi (The Six Senses, 1974), an enormous abstract made entirely with biro pens utilised at different intensities, an alphabet r