"Booth A18"
Alighiero Boetti, Luca Pancrazzi
TOTAH
183 STANTON STREET NEW YORK NY 10002
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ADAA Art Show
Park Avenue Armory Park Avenue at 67th Street New York Citytelephone: 212 488 5550 fax: 646 688 6809
November 3 > 6, 2022
Booth A18
Mappe, Aerei e Postali
TOTAH presents a historically important two-person exhibition featuring Alighiero Boetti and Luca Pancrazzi, together for the first time in the United States. Through key motifs in their work, airplanes, maps, and postage stamps, they represent divergent explorations of space, boundaries and movement. Boetti came to represent Italy's Arte Povera movement on a global scale, while Pancrazzi was a key player in his studio from the 1980s through the early 90s. Both are connected by common dualities and a fascination with the associative power of order and chaos.
Alighiero Boetti (1940 - 1994) known as Alighiero e Boetti was an Italian conceptual artist born in Turin, Italy associated with the art movement Arte Povera. Traveling to Afghanistan at the beginning of the 1970s, he was introduced to the traditional craft of embroidery, which marked a turning point in the artist's career. He is most famous for a series of embroidered maps of the world, Mappa, created between 1971 and his death in 1994. Boetti's work was typified by his notion of 'twinning', leading him to add 'e' (meaning and) between his names, "stimulating a dialectic exchange between these two selves." His work has been the subject of numerous international exhibitions, including retrospectives at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Tate Gallery in London, and the MoMA in New York.
Luca Pancrazzi (Born 1961) works in painting, drawing, photography, installation, and sculpture, as well as other media. A key collaborator in Alighiero Boetti's studio for almost a decade, the multimedia artistry of Luca Pancrazzi is known for expressing an almost monochromatic stillness. He has participated in numerous international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale (1997), the Triennale of New Delhi (1997), the Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion (1998), the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2007), the Rome Quadrennial (2008), and the Villa Pacchiani (2020). Some of the public spaces that have hosted his work include PS1 Contemporary Art Center (1999), Lenbachhaus (2001), Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts (2007), Pomodoro Foundation (2010), and the Siena Children's Museum (2010). His work is included in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art, NY, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, The Goetz Collection, Munich, GAM, Turin, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Mappe, Aerei e Postali
TOTAH presents a historically important two-person exhibition featuring Alighiero Boetti and Luca Pancrazzi, together for the first time in the United States. Through key motifs in their work, airplanes, maps, and postage stamps, they represent divergent explorations of space, boundaries and movement. Boetti came to represent Italy's Arte Povera movement on a global scale, while Pancrazzi was a key player in his studio from the 1980s through the early 90s. Both are connected by common dualities and a fascination with the associative power of order and chaos.
Alighiero Boetti (1940 - 1994) known as Alighiero e Boetti was an Italian conceptual artist born in Turin, Italy associated with the art movement Arte Povera. Traveling to Afghanistan at the beginning of the 1970s, he was introduced to the traditional craft of embroidery, which marked a turning point in the artist's career. He is most famous for a series of embroidered maps of the world, Mappa, created between 1971 and his death in 1994. Boetti's work was typified by his notion of 'twinning', leading him to add 'e' (meaning and) between his names, "stimulating a dialectic exchange between these two selves." His work has been the subject of numerous international exhibitions, including retrospectives at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Tate Gallery in London, and the MoMA in New York.
Luca Pancrazzi (Born 1961) works in painting, drawing, photography, installation, and sculpture, as well as other media. A key collaborator in Alighiero Boetti's studio for almost a decade, the multimedia artistry of Luca Pancrazzi is known for expressing an almost monochromatic stillness. He has participated in numerous international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale (1997), the Triennale of New Delhi (1997), the Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion (1998), the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2007), the Rome Quadrennial (2008), and the Villa Pacchiani (2020). Some of the public spaces that have hosted his work include PS1 Contemporary Art Center (1999), Lenbachhaus (2001), Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts (2007), Pomodoro Foundation (2010), and the Siena Children's Museum (2010). His work is included in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art, NY, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, The Goetz Collection, Munich, GAM, Turin, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris.
