Alighiero Boetti's Intimate Embroidery Works at Florence's Accademia delle Arti del Disegno
Alighiero Boetti returns to Florence with a more intimate exhibition at the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, curated by Luca Tomìo. The show features small embroidered works—'multiples uniques' as Boetti called them—alongside photographs by Randi Malkin Steinberger. The display contrasts with Boetti's large-scale maps shown at Palazzo Vecchio in 2015. Agata Boetti, the artist's daughter and director of the Alighiero Boetti Archive in Rome, attended the opening with Accademia president Cristina Acidini. The exhibition emphasizes simplicity and spontaneity, with embroideries made by Afghan women. Boetti's words, quoted by Sergio Givone, describe artworks as 'continuous sources of words and thoughts.' The show runs until May 20, 2016, at the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, Via Ricasoli 68, Florence.
Key facts
- Alighiero Boetti (Turin, 1940 – Rome, 1994) returns to Florence with an intimate exhibition.
- The exhibition is held at the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in Via Ricasoli.
- Curated by Luca Tomìo, the show features small embroidered works and photographs by Randi Malkin Steinberger.
- Boetti's large maps were shown at Palazzo Vecchio in 2015.
- Agata Boetti, the artist's daughter and archive director, attended the opening with Accademia president Cristina Acidini.
- The embroideries were made by Afghan women and are described as 'multiples uniques.'
- Boetti's quote: 'A work is valid precisely when its mechanism is simple, when you feel in things the ease, spontaneity, wonder of something born with nothing.'
- The exhibition runs until May 20, 2016.
Entities
Artists
- Alighiero Boetti
- Randi Malkin Steinberger
Institutions
- Accademia delle Arti del Disegno
- Alighiero Boetti Archive
- Palazzo Vecchio
Locations
- Florence
- Turin
- Rome
- Via Ricasoli 68
- Italy