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Alighiero Boetti
Description
- Alighiero Boetti
- Venticinque per venticinque seicentoventicinque lettere dai cento colori...
- ricamo su tela
- cm 106x109
- Eseguito nel 1989 ca.
Provenance
Asta Christie's New York, Post War and Contemporary, 15 maggio 2002
Ivi acquistato dall'attuale proprietario
Catalogue Note
Il suo rispetto e la nostalgia per questi tempi antichi coesistevano con la sua frustrazione e con un vero e proprio fatalismo. “Sono i limiti della condizione dell’uomo. La differenza tra la gente che vivrà il tempo lentamente e quella che la vivrà velocemente, sarà sempre più grande. Non so chi invidiare…”, mi diceva.
Questa rassegnazione era alleviata dalle incognite che potevano presentarsi durante questi viaggi, dove le opere erano lontane, abbandonate a loro stesse, pronte a vivere avventure nate dal caso.” [...]
Agata Boetti, Il gioco dell’Arte con mio padre, Alighiero, Milano 2016, p. 83
"[...] He loved telling me about his tapestries that once initially drawn were sent to Afghanistan (up to 1979) and later on to Pakistan, where they were meant to be embroidered. They had to go through a long journey, most of the times it was hard to even imagine how complicated this would be, so he would tell me that the women who did the embroidery could not work day and night, they also had to sleep and take care of their kids. The shipping due to the bumpy and not practical streets, the snow and the melting of the snow, or the vehicles that were old and out of order was often very hard. There were many aspects that delayed the work of these women, for instance when there was no electricity they have to stop working after sunset...
His respect and nostalgia for these past times coexisted at once with a sense of frustration and fatalism , he used to tell me “these are the limits of human conditions. The difference between those who will live their lives slowly and those who will live a fast life, will become wider. I am not sure who I should envy..”
This resignation was relieved by the unknown possibilities that could be encountered during these long trips, in which his tapestries were far away , left on their own and ready to live new adventures that could happen by pure chance". [...]