Piegare e Spiegare
A conceptual work by Italian Arte Povera pioneer Alighiero Boetti, *Piegare e Spiegare* (Folding and Unfolding) engages with the artist's enduring fascination with duality, process, and the interplay between order and chance. The title itself functions as a poetic instruction, suggesting a cyclical and meditative act of transformation inherent in the work's physical or conceptual form. Characteristic of Boetti's practice, the piece invites contemplation of opposites held in tension — the simple and the complex, the visible and the concealed.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Contemporary Art Day Sale
February 13, 2015
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Artists in conversation
Sol LeWitt
American · b. 1928
LeWitt shared Boetti's commitment to conceptual process and systematic instruction as the artwork itself, producing geometric abstract compositions rooted in intellectual rigor and the tension between predetermined order and emergent visual outcomes.
Lawrence Weiner
American · b. 1942
Weiner's text based conceptual practice mirrors Boetti's use of language as both instruction and artwork, exploring duality and transformation through minimal abstract compositions that foreground process and meaning over traditional object making.
On Kawara
Japanese · b. 1932
Kawara's rigorous conceptual and process driven work shares Boetti's meditative engagement with cyclical repetition, neutral tones, and the intellectual tension between order and chance embedded within systematic abstract compositions.
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