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Alighiero Boetti — Piegare e Spiegare
Alighiero Boetti

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.

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Contemporary Art Day Sale

February 13, 2015

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Alighiero Boetti, 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.

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Related themes

Twentieth Century, Geometric Composition, Male Artist, Intellectual Mood, Conceptual Art, Avant-Garde, Italian Artist, Process Art, Minimal Composition, Late 20th Century, Avant-Garde Artist, Arte Povera, Neutral Tones, Conceptual Artist, Abstract, Text-Based Art, Abstract Work, Abstract Composition

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