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Alighiero Boetti: Gladstone Gallery.

Publication: Artforum International
Publication Date: 01-JAN-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Gladstone Gallery's recent exhibition of works made by Italian artist Alighiero Boetti between the late 1980s and the early '90s showcased two core elements of his work: an investigation of personal and collective identity conducted with reference to the idea of the Other, and a reflection on the power of art to dissolve boundaries between people. Like Andy Warhol and Sol LeWitt, Boetti was a "lazy genius," and regularly entrusted the completion of his work to others, thereby distancing himself from the myth of the solitary artist and allowing for a deeper immersion in his themes. (Traveling...

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