Alighiero BoettiVertical Tabs Works Video TateShots: Alighiero E Boetti Video of TateShots: Alighiero E Boetti TateShots: Francesco Clemente on Alighiero Boetti Video of TateShots: Francesco Clemente on Alighiero Boetti Biographyhttp://www.fondazioneboetti.it/index.htmlAlighiero Boetti was born in Turin in 1940. From 1968, he added an ‘e’ (Italian for ‘and’) between his first name and surname creating a double character which he used throughout his career. Boetti’s affiliation with the Arte Povera movement was brief, and by the 1970s, he stood apart from the collective movements of those times. He was heavily influenced by his travels to Afghanistan - he visited the country for the first time in 1971 and then regularly until 1979 when the Russian Army invaded. In his famous Mappa series, Boetti directed Afghan craftswomen to embroider maps with geopolitical entities represented by their flags.Notable solo exhibitions have taken place at the Magasin (Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and the MoMA PS1, New York. A major retrospective recently took place at the Museo Nacional de Arte Centro Reina Sofia, Madrid; Tate Modern, London; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.Boetti lived and worked in Rome, where he died in 1994. PUBLIC COLLECTIONS AUSTRIA Sammlung Essl - Kunsthaus, Klosterneuburg Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK Vienn BELGIUM SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent CANADA National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa FRANCE FRAC - Picardie, Amiens FRAC - Pays de la Loire, Carquefou FRAC - Bourgogne, Dijon FRAC - Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque FRAC - Languedoc-Roussilon, Montpellier Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS), Strasbourg les Abattoirs de Toulouse, Toulouse FRAC - Rhône-Alpes, IAC - Institute d`art contemporain, Villeurbanne GERMANY Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt M ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe Sammlung Goetz, Munich ITALY Galleria d´Arte Moderna di Bologna - GAM, Bologna MUSEION - Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst, Bolzano Terrae Motus, Caserta Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina - MADRE, Naples Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia MART- Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto Trevi Flash Art Museum Of Contemporary Art, Trevi Museo d´arte contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Turin Galleria Civica d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea - GAM, Turin Ca´la Ghironda - Museo d´Arte Classica, Moderna e Contemporanea, Zola Predosa JAPAN Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Tokyo LIECHTENSTEIN Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz THE NETHERLANDS Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam PORTUGAL Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon SPAIN Fundacio Suñol, Barcelona SWEDEN Moderna Museet, Stockholm SWITZERLAND Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel Museum für Gegenwartskunst - Emanuel Hoffmann-Stiftung, Basel Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne Schaulager, Basel Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich US Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Museum of Modern Art, New York Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
