Alighiero Boetti
Game Plan
concept and direction Lynne Cooke ; editors Mark Godfrey, Chriatian Rattemeyer

---

Editor(s)

Mark Godfrey, Christian Rattemeyer

Publication

London : Tate , 2012

Scope

280 Pages, illustrated, 28 cm.

ISBN

9781849760089

---

Alighiero Boetti (1940–1994) was originally associated with the Arte Povera group in Turin, in the 1960s he made works using materials sourced in hardware stores, shifting by 1970 to create art using drawing, Biro pens, newspaper images and artist’s books. Based in Rome, he travelled constantly to distant destinations including Guatemala, Ethiopia, Japan, and, most frequently, Kabul, in Afghanistan. It was in Kabul that he set up a hotel and commissioned artisans to create embroideries, most famously his 'mappe', intricate maps of the world coloured according to political affiliation.

---

Person as subject

Alighiero Boetti

Keywords

painting , installation , sculpture , drawing

Location

Cabinet 1 - 5: Kunstenaars

Remarks

concept and direction Lynne Cooke