Large-scale work by the Italian artist's "1984" will be the top lot of the first trades newly opened units of contemporary art auction house

Alighieri Boetti
1984
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Work Alighieri Boetti (Alighiero E Boetti)« 1984 », previously estimated at 1.2-1.8 million pounds, is collected along the pencil sketches of 192 magazine covers, published in 1984. The sale of this important work has announced the auction house Bonhams, more accurately, not so long ago, it opened in the Division of Modern Art.

Boetti Alighieri (1940-1994) is considered one of the most influential Italian artists of the twentieth century. The work of "1984", consisting of six panels that are attached drawings, never previously exhibited for sale.

Boetti was a key figure in the Italian movement Poor man (Arte Povera), brought together in the late 1960s, young Italian artists, they worked in a radical and innovative manner and used to create works of art are simple, everyday materials. They argued in his work of pure organic aesthetics.

Boetti is best known for a series of large-scale embroidered world maps, entitled «Mappa», as well as the works of pop art, for which he used stamps and all of the same magazine covers.

Boetti Alighieri wrote the first series of pencil drawings based on the covers in the late 1970s. Such work can be found in the Italian permanent collection of MOMA museum in New York York. The work that will soon be sold at Bonhams, - first a collage of magazine covers Boetti, and very impressive size - 9 x 2 meters. Later, in 1988, 1989 and 1990, Boetti created three more of these collages. All of them are now in the collections of major public museums.

When life Alighieri Boetti was not treated kindly by critics only, but also commercially successful. His first solo exhibition was held in 1967 in Turin, Christian Stein Gallery (Christian Stein) . In the same year his work was exhibited at Galleria La Beriesca in Geneva.'s first solo exhibition in the United States was in 1973 in New York's John Weber Gallery (John Weber Gallery). Boetti exhibited in Italy and the United States until his death in 1994 .

His memory is honored by several large museums exhibitions - such as the National Gallery of Modern Art (Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna) in Rome in 1996 and the Whitechapel Gallery (Whitechapel Gallery) in 1999. In 2012, Britain Tate Modern retrospective of his conduct, which will debut works Boetti at this prestigious site. The exhibition, which promises to be one of the most interesting artistic events of the year, will also be shown at MoMA (New York) and in Madrid Centre Arts Reina Sofia (Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofia).

Prepared Estrova Maria, AI

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