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Alighiero Boetti — Senza titolo (Secondo mese del giorno quattordicesimo millenovecentonovantadue)
Alighiero Boetti

Senza titolo (Secondo mese del giorno quattordicesimo millenovecentonovantadue)

A dense grid of handwritten text and numerical sequences fills the paper surface, reflecting Boetti's longstanding fascination with systems of order, time, and language. The work's title encodes a specific date — the fourteenth day of the second month of 1992 — transforming the act of marking time into a poetic and conceptual gesture. Characteristic of Boetti's practice, the piece blurs the boundaries between art and document, chance and intention, the personal and the universal.

Medium
mixed media on paper

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Contemporary Art Day Sale

October 16, 2014

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Alighiero Boetti, Senza titolo (Secondo mese del giorno quattordicesimo millenovecentonovantadue)

A dense grid of handwritten text and numerical sequences fills the paper surface, reflecting Boetti's longstanding fascination with systems of order, time, and language. The work's title encodes a specific date — the fourteenth day of the second month of 1992 — transforming the act of marking time into a poetic and conceptual gesture. Characteristic of Boetti's practice, the piece blurs the boundaries between art and document, chance and intention, the personal and the universal.

Medium
mixed media on paper
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Minimal, Conceptual, Intellectual, Text-Based, Italian, Mixed Media on Paper, Neutral Tones, Abstract, Contemporary, Post-Modern

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