The late artist
Alighiero Boetti is probably most well known for his series of embroidered maps
of the world, "Mappa," that he designed and handed over to Afghan
craftswomen to stitch, resulting in intricate and finely crafted pieces. Why,
then, does this quote from the artist open the exhibition website: "First
of all I prefer thought. This is the basic thing. I really think manual skill
is secondary…"? Read on about Boetti to discover that his work explored
opposites: "order and disorder, duality and multiplicity, travel and
geography, time and space, and intention and chance," resulting in the
varied body of work in the exhibition, ranging from the embroideries to more
conceptual pieces. Boetti expressed this duality in his artistic persona as
well, often signing his work "Alighiero e Boetti," twinned personas
representing his opposite sides. http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2012/boetti/
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