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Alighiero Boetti

1940Born in Turin, Italy
Lived and worked in Rome
1994Died in Rome, 24 April
SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
1967Galleria Christian Stein, Turin
 Galleria La Bertesca, Genoa
1968Galleria Christian Stein, Turin
 Galleria De Nieubourg, Milan
 Galleria Sperone, Turin
1970Galleria Toselli, Milan
 Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich
 Galleria Acme, Brescia
 "Besprechungsvortrag," Aktionsraum 1, Munich
1971"A.B. - 16 Drawings," Galeria Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf
 "12 Forme dal 10 giugno 1967," Galleria Sperone, Turin
1972Galleria Toselli, Milan
1973Galleria Marilena Bonomo, Bari, Italy
 John Weber Gallery, New York
 Sperone-Fischer Gallery, Rome
 Galleria Toselli, Milan
 Galerie MTL, Brussels
 Art & Project, Amsterdam
1974Galerie Anne Marie Verna, Zurich
 Kunstmuseum, Lucerne
 Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Turin
1975John Weber Gallery, New York
 Ein Werk fur einen Raum (Ononimo)
 Kunstmuseum Luzern
 Galleria ARFA-ZWEY
 Saman Gallery, Geneva
 Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome
 Galleria AREA, Florence
 Galleria Pasquale TriSorio, Naples
 Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Turin
1976Galleria Banco/Massimo Mini, Brescia
 Galleria Lia Rumma, Naples
 Insicuro non Curante, Studio Marconi, Milan
 Galleria D'Alessandro-Ferranti, Rome
1977Centre d'art contemporain, Geneva
 Galleria Marlborough, Rome
 Galleria Anne Marie Verna, Zurich
 Galleria Dell'Arte, Milan
 Centre Dell'Ariete, Milan
 Galleria Il Collezionista, Rome
1978Galleria Christian Stein, Turin
 Kunsthalle Basel, curated by Jean-Christophe Amman
 Galeria Paul Maenz, Cologne
 Galleria Il Cortile, Rome
 Galleria Giuliana de Crescenzo, Rome
1979Studio D'Arte TxT, Rimini
 Studio Plura Edizioni, Milan
1980Galleria Minini, Brescia
 Salvatore Ala Gallery, New York
 Art Agency/Aka, Tokyo
1981Galleria LP220-Franz Paludetto, "Una Faccenda Ottusa," Brescia
 Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
1982Gallerie Toselli, Milan
 Galleria Mario Diacono, Rome
 Anne Marie Verna Gallerie, Zurich
1983Galleria Mario Pieroni, Rome
 Gallerie Giorgio Persano, Padiglione Arte Contemporanea, Milan
 Galleria Enzo Cannaviello, Milan
 Galleria LP220-Franz Paludetto, "The Thousand Longest Rivers in the World," Turin
1984Galerie Eric Franck, Geneva
 John Weber Gallery, New York
 Boetti Retrospective, Pinacoteca Communale Loggetta Lombardesca, Ravenna
 Boetti Drawings 1984, Galleria Franz Paludetto, Turin
 Facolta 'Di Architettura, Rome
 Pinacoteca di Ravenna-Antologica, Ravenna
1985Pinacoteca comunale di Ravenna (retrospective exh.), Ravenna
 Galleria Marilena Bonomo, Bari, Italy
 Galleria Chisel, Genova
 Galleria Pero, Miozawo
 Incontri Internazionali D'Art, Rome
 Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy
 Galleria Il Cortile "Una Scimmia Due Scimmie," Rome
1986"Insicurononcurante," Noveau Musee, Lyon
 Stedelijk Van Abben Museum Antologica, Eindhoven, Belgium
 Galleria Pietro Sparta, Chagny, France
 Michael Klein Inc., Amsterdam
 Galleria Susan Wyss "Esercizi 86," Zurigo
 Villa Arson, Nice, France
1987Galleria Lucio Amelio, Naples
 Galleria Christian Stein, Turin
 Galleria Christian Stein, Milan
 Galleria Allessandra Bonomo, Rome
1988"Alighiero e Boetti opere dal 1974 al 1987," la Nuova
 Galleria H.S. Steineck, Vienna
 Galleria Pio Monti, Rome
 Galerie Susan Wyss, Zurich
1989Galleria Toselli, Milan
 Laurie Genillard Gallery, London
 Gallerie H.S. Steineck, Vienna
 Edward Totah Gallery, London
1990Galleria Lucio Amelio, Naples
 "Cent Broderies," Galerie Eric Franck, Geneva
 Galerie Leccese - Spruth, Cologne
 Galerie Leyendecker, Santa Cruz, Tenerife
 Galerie Hadrien Thomas, Paris
 Galerie Amelio Brachot, Paris
 Galleria Pio Monti, Rome
 "XLIV Biennale di Venezia," Venice
 Museo Casabianca, Malo
1991Galleria Seno, Milan
 Galleria Marilena Bonomo, Bari, Italy
 John Weber Gallery, New York
1992Franck - Schulte Galerie, Berlin
1992-93"Synchronizitat als ein Prinzip akausaler Zusammenhange," Kunstverein, Bonn;
 Westfalischer Kunstverein, Munster; Kunstmuseum, Lucerne.
1993"Alternating 1 to 100 and Vice Versa," Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble, France, 27 November 1993-27 March 1994 (catalogue); The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, 7 August 1994-4 September 1994; P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City, New York, October 13 - January 8 (selection)
1994"Alighiero e Boetti," taking place within the project, "Origin and Destination,"
 Societe des Expositions du Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Brussels, 18 February - 3 May (catalogue)
1995"Alighiero e Boetti Map and Embroideries 1984 - 1988," John Weber Gallery, New York, January 14 - February 11
 "Alighiero e Boetti," Sperone Westwater, New York, 25 March - 29 April
 "Alighiero e Boetti," Monika Spruth Galerie, Cologne, Germany, May - June
 "Alighiero e Boetti: Frammenti di un fregio," Galleria Cardi, Milan and Galleria Sperone, Rome, May 30 - July 30
1996-97"Alighiero Boetti," Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy, May 9 - September 1; Musee d'Art Moderne, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, September 28, 1996 - January 12, 1997; Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, February, 1997-May, 1997 (catalogue)
1998"Alighiero Boetti: Mettere al mondo il mondo," Museums für Moderne Kunst, 30 January-10 May, and Galerie Jahrhunderthalle Hoechst, Frankfurt am Main, 1 March-19 April
 "Alighiero e Boetti: 'Weltkarten'," Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, 18 April (closing date)
 "Alighiero Boetti," Lindig in Paludetto zeitgenössische Kunst, Nürnberg, 13 May-20 June 1998
1999"Boetti; the maverick spirit of Arte Povera," Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 15 September - 7 November 1999
 "Alighiero e Boetti," presented by Massimo Minini, Laure Genillard Gallery, London, 17 September - 23 October 1999
2000"Caravanserail," Carousel Gallery, 5 February - 25 March, 2000
 "Alighiero Boetti, Works on Paper 1967-1989," Barbara Gladstone, 23 February - 8 April 2000
2001"Alighiero e Boetti," Gagosian Gallery, New York, 10 February - March
 "Untitled"-Victoria Boogie-Woogie (1972) and Selected Early Works," Sperone Westwater, New York, 19 April-2 June 2001 
2002"Alighiero e Boetti: ‘Simmetria Asimmetria’ (‘Biro’ Works from the 70’s and 80’s),” Sperone Westwater, New York, 24 January – 6 April 2002 (catalogue)
"Alighiero e Boetti,” The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, 25 January – 6 April 2002 (catalogue)
2003"Alighiero Boetti", Marconi, Milan, June 10-July 15
"Alighiero e Boetti: Early Works,” Sprüth Magers Lee, London, 5 September – 4 October
2004Alighiero e Boetti, “Quasi Tutto (Almost Everything),” Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy, 6 April – 18 July; Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires, September (catalogue)
“Alighiero e Boetti,” Caratsch dePury & Luxembourg, Zurich, 27 May – 20 August 2004
2006“Un Pozzo Senza Fine, Embroideries,” Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, 23 January – 7 April 2006.
“Alighiero E. Boetti,” Studio Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Milan, Italy, 8 March – 31 May 2006.
“Alighiero Boetti: Cieli ad Alta Quota,” Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Zurich, Switzerland, 27 October – 15 December 2006
2007“Alighiero e Boetti,” Gladstone Gallery, New York, 20 October – 24 November, 2007
2009“Alighiero & Boetti: Mettere all’Arte il Mondo 1993-1962,” Museo Madre, Napoli, Italy, 21 February – 11 May 2009
“Alighiero E Boetti,” Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy, opening 31 March
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1967"Premio San Fedele," Milan
 "Arte Povera," Galleria La Bertesca
 "Arte Povera," University of Genoa
 "Arte Povera," Galleria La Bertesca, Genoa; University of Genoa; Galleria De Foscherari, Bologna; Centro Arte Viva Feltrinelli, Trieste
 "Contemplazione," Galleria Sperone, Turin; Galleria Flaviana, Lugano
1968"RA3/Arte povera piu azione povere," Amalfi
 Group exhibition, Galleria Christian Stein, Rome
 "Premio Masaccio," Citta' di San Giovanni Valdarno
 "Il Teatro delle Mostre," Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome
 "9 per un Percorso," Galleria Arco d'Ailbert, Rome
 "Prospect 68," Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf
1969"Op Losse Schroeven,
 "When Attitudes Become Form," Kunsthalle, Bern; Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld; ICA, London
 "Konzeption/Conception," Stadtisches Museum, Leverkusen
 "Prospect 69," Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf
 "Sentenza 1 (Boetti, Long, Paolini, Ryman)," Galleria Toselli, Milan
 "Disegni e Progetti," Galleria Sperone, Turin
 "Mostra nazionale delle gallerie di tendenza," Modena
1970"La Fotografia creativa," Centro La Capella, Trieste
 "Vitalita 'del Negativo dell' Arte Italiana 1960-1970," Palazzo delle Esposizione di Roma, Rome
 "Besprechungsvortrag - Love's Body," Aktionsraum 1, Munich
 "Identification," Video Galerie Gerry Schum, Hannover
 "3a Biennale della giovane pittura," Bologna
 "Processi di pensiero visualizzati," Kunstmuseum, Lucerne
 "Conceptual Art/Arte Povera/Land Art," Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin
 "3e Salon International des Galeries Pilotes," Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
1971"Formulation," Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
 "Arte povera," Kunstverein, Munich
 "Persona," Internationales Theaterfestival Belgrad, Belgrade
 "7e Biennale de Paris," Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
 "Informazioni sulla presenza italiana," Incontri Internationali d'Arte, Rome
1972"Documenta 5," Kassel
 "XXXVI Biennale di Venezia," Venice
 "420 West Broadway," Festival of Two Worlds, Spoleto
 "De Europa," John Weber Gallery, New York 1973 
 "Contemporanea," Parcheggio di Villa Borghese, Rome
 Galleria Sperone Fischer, Rome
 "7 Italiani," MTL Bruxelles/ \Art and Project, Amsterdam
 "X Quadriennale," Rome
 "New Italian Art," Gallery Belfast and David Hendriks Gallery, Dublin
1974"Eight Contemporary Artists," Museum of Modern Art, New York
 "24 Ore," Galleria l"Attico, Rome
 "Gheno, Eros, Thanatos," Galleria de Foscherari, Bologna
1975"VIIIe Biennale de S. Paolo," Sao Paulo
 Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome
 Galleria La Salita, Rome
 "Boetti-Chia-Clemente-Pisani," Galleria Framart, Napoli
 "Il Disegno Galleria Randanini," Rome
 Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York
 University of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
1976"Prospectretrospect, Europa 1946 - 1976," Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf
 Galleria Franz Paludetto-LP220, Turin
1977"Contrasto apparente - 16 italiani," Museum Boymans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
 "Arte in Italia 1960 - 77," Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin
 "21 Contemporary Italian Artists," Villa Comunale Ormond, Saremo
1978Kunstverein, Basel
 "The Contemporary Figure," Galleria de' Foscherari, Bologna
 Galleria La Piramide, Florence
 Galleria La Salita, Rome
 "Dalla natura all'arte - dall'arte alla natura," Biennale di Venezia, Venice
 "Ars Combinatioria-Omaggio a Fahlstrom," Galleria Communale d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna
 "The Room," Castelo Colonna di Gemazzano, Gemazzano
1979"Words," Museum Bochum, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Palazzo Ducale, Genova
 "Hommage to Ovylind Fahlstrom," Gallery of Modern Art, Bologna
 "Textural," Rotonda di via Besana, Milan
 Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva
1980"Ut pictura poesis," Loggetta Lomberdesca, Ravenna
 "Pier Ocean," Hayward Gallery, London; Reijksmuseum, Kroller-Muller, Otterloo, the Netherlands
 "Construction in the art of the seventies," Rijksmuseum Kroller - Muller, Otterlo
 Biennale di Venezia, Venice
1981"Avanguardia Transavanguardia," Mura Aureliana, Rome
 "Documenta 7," Kassel
 "Duetto - Alighiero Boetti & Ettore Sottsass," A.A.M. Coop, Rome
 "Identite Italienne, L'art en Italie depuis 1959," Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1982"About Books," Galleria Mario Pieroni, Rome
1983"Carla Accardi - Alighiero Boetti," Padiglione
 "Eine Kunstgeschichte aus Turin 1965 - 83," Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
 "30 Italian Artists: 1950-1983," Chiesa di S. Samuele, Venice
 "Il Grande Disegno," Comune di Fiesole, Fiesole
 "Imago," Galleria Civica d'Arte Contemporanea di Suzzara, Suzzara
 "Boetti LeWitt Paolini," Galleria Mario Pieroni, Rome
1984"Il modo italiano," California State University, Los Angeles, California
 "Interventi di Boetti e Schifano," University of Rome, Department of Architecture, Rome
 "Que Reste-t-il (What Remains)," Over Studio, Torino
 "Sein und Sehnsucht," Kunstverein Kassel, Kassel
 "Coerenza in coerenza - dall'arte povera al 1984," Mole Antonella, Turin
 "Imago," PAC, Ferrara
 "Esposizione disegni," Galleria Communale d'Arte Contemporanea, Bologna
1985"Arte povera - dell'arte povera al 1985," Placido de Velazquez, Placido de Cristal, Parc del Retiro, Madrid
 "Italienische Kunst," Castello di Rivoli
 "Knot Arte Povera," P.S. 1, New York
 "Boetti Dadamaino," Studio Tre Architettura, Milan
 "On Language and Ecstasy," Alvar Aalto Museo, Jyvaskyla
 Porin Taidemuseo, Pori, Finland
 "Promenade," Geneva
 "Sein und Sehnsucht," Villa Merkel, Esslingen; Kunstverein Kassel
1986"XLII Biennale di Venezia," Venice
 "Ritrattare," Galleria Eva Menzio, Torino
 "Il Cangiante," PAC, Milan
1987"Disegnata," Loggetta Lomberdesca, Ravenna
 "Arte Povera," Galerie Durand Dessert, Paris 
 "Arte Povera nelle Collezioni publiche in Francia," Musees d'art et d'histoire, Chambery
 "Boetti, Ceccobelli, Nunzio, Ontani, Salvo, Schifano, Twombly," Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome
 "Italienische Zeichnungen 1945 - 1987," Kunsstverein, Frankfurt; Galleria Civica, Modena
 "Chef d'oeuvre," Libreria Adria, Rome
 "Similia Dissimilia, Modes of abstraction...today," Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf; Leo Castelli Gallery and Sonnabend Gallery, New York
1988"Forma Urbis, 'Memoria e progetto'," Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome
 "Acquisition recentes du frac des pays de la Loire," Nantes
 "A.B.O. Ritratti di un uomo," Fortezza da Basso, Firenza; Galleria Sprovieri and Cleto Polcina arte moderna, Rome
 "Made to measure," Trettle's Yard Gallery, Cambridge
 Galleria Chisel, Milan
1989"Ad usum dimorae," Fondazione Querini Stampala, Venice
 "On Paper," Galleria Chisel, Milan
 "Words," Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
 "Collages," Galleria Arco d'Alibert, Rome
 "Segni di Acqua," Galleria il Segno, Rome
1989"L'utilita della bussola inventataa in Amalfi da Flavio Gioia nelle derive dell'arte," Antichi Arsenali della Repubblica, Amalfi
 "Verso l'arte povera," Padiglione Arte Contemporanea, Milan
 "Magiciens de la Terre," Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
 "Raccolta del disegno contemporaneo, Acquisizioni 1989," Galleria Civica di Moderna, Moderna
 "L'art conceptual, une perspective, Musee d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
 "Artoon," Palazzo degli Uffici, Rome
1990"Il mondo delle torri," Palazzo Reale, Milan
 Hubert Klocker, Schottenfeldgasse
 Galerie Susan Wyss, Zurich
1991"L'Arte Povera," Kunstverein, Munich
 "Opere Sparse in Galleria," La Bertesca, Genova
 "Incompatibilita," Galleria Giulia, Rome
 Hubert Klocker, Schottenfeldgasse
1992"Reperti," Museo Nacional de Beles Artes, Rio de Janeiro
1994"Mapping," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 5 October- 20 December (catalogue)
1994-95"Worlds Envisioned," Dia Center For The Arts, New York, 6 October 1994- 8 June 1995, American Center, Paris, 6 September 1995 - 28 January 1996 (catalogue)
 "The Italian Metamorphosis, 1943 - 1968," Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, October 6- January 22 (catalogue)
 "Terrae Motus Terrae Motus," Palazzo Reale, Caserta, Italy, December (catalogue)
1995Sperone Westwater, New York, September - October
1995-96"Tradition & Innovation: Italian Art since 1945," National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea, December 9, 1995 - January 23, 1996 (catalogue)
1996"Tenth Biennale of Sidney," Sidney, Australia, July 27 - September 22
1997"Arte Italiana, Ultimi Quarant'anni: Materiali Anomali," Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, 28 February - 4 May
 "Anselmo, Boetti, Laib, Merz, Nauman, Paolini, Pistoletto, Vital, Zorio," Sperone Westwater, New York, 13 September-18 October
1997-98"Arte Italiana, 1945-1995: il visibile e l'invisibile," Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, 14 November-15 January; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 1 February-22 March; Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori, 23 April-26 May; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 15 June-26 July
 "Arte Italiana: Ultimi quarant'anni, Pittura iconica," Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy, 28 November-8 March (catalogo)
 Christian Stein, Milan, December-January
1997-00"Arte Povera: Arbeiten und Dokumente aus der Sammlung Goetz, 1958 bis heute," Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, June-September; Kunsthalle Nürnberg, October-December; Kölnischer Kunstverein, 13 February-26 April; Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Palais Lichtenstein, Vienna, 19 June-30 August; Konsthalle Göteborg, Sweden, September-October; Sammlung Goetz, Munich (catalogue)
1998"Szenenwechsel XIII/Change of Scene XIII," Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, 30 January-10 May (brochure)
 "Alighiero Boetti, Fischli/Weiss," Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, February-March
 "Terra Incognita, Five Visionary Worlds: Alighiero e Boetti, Vija Celmins, Neil
 Jenney, Jean-Luc Mylayne, Hiroshi Sugimoto," Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, 10 May-23 August (catalogue)
 "Alighiero Boetti, Nicola de Maria, Mimmo Paladino," Galleria Cardi, Milan
1998-99"Unfinished History," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 18 october - 10 January (catalogue)
1999"Alighiero e Boetti, Hanne Darboven, Sol LeWitt," Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, January
 "Alighiero Boetti, Francesco Clemente, Nicola de Maria, Mimmo Paladino, Richard Tuttle" Galleria Cardi, Milan, March 1999.
 "Scripta Manent," Esso gallery, NY, 28 April - 19 June 1999
 "Ars Aevi,"Exhibition of the Collection. Museum of Contemporary Art, Sarajevo. opening 25 June.
 "Arte Povera," Bornholms Kunstmuseum, Helligdommen, Denmark, December 1999 (Catalogue)
1999-2000"World Views: Maps & Art", Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, 12 September - 2 january 2000.
 "Au-Delà," Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin, 27 November, 1999- 22 January, 2000
 "World Views: Maps and Art," Weisman Art Museum, September 12,1999- January 2, 2000.
2000"Arte Povera Torinese; Boetti, Merz, Paolini, Penone, Pistoletto, Zorio" Galerie Nathalie Pariente, Paris, 15 April - 20 May 2000
 "Hand-made dreams" Artiscope (Zaira Mis), Bruxelles, 23 March - 31 May 2000
 "Cosmologies" Sperone Westwater, New York, 4 May - 10 June 2000
 "USF Collects," University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, 21 August - 29 September 2000
 "In Process: Photographs from the 60s and 70s," Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, 20 October - 25 November 2000
 Group Show, Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art, New York, November - December 2000
2000-2001"Le Temps, vite," Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 13 January - 17 April 2000; Palais des Expositions, Rome, 15 July -23 October 2000; Centre de Culture Contemporaine, Barcelona, 28 November 2000 - 25 February 2001 (catalogue)
2001La Biennale di Venezia, Italian Pavillion, 6 June - 4 November 2001 (catalogue)
 "Multipli 1967 - 2001," Esso Gallery, New York, 16 January - 3 March 2001
 "Portrait," Lindig in Paludetto, Nürnberg, 17 January - 3 March 2001
 "À contretemps," curated by Frac Picardie, Fonds règional d'art contemporain de Picardie, Paris, 27 January - 15 March 2001
 Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, 15 February - 31 March 2001
 Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art, New York, mid-February - mid-April 2001
 "Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera," Tate Modern, 31 May - 19 August 2001(brochure)
“Green on Greene,” Sperone Westwater, New York, 1 November – 15 December (catalogue)
“Toward Uncertainty,” 9 November – 29 December 2001, David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, Providence
2001-2002“Accrochage,” Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, 6 December 2001 – 2 February 2002
2002“A Silent Poetry,” Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, 16 January – March
“Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera,” MOCA at the Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, Spring
2003-2004“Thinking about Sculpture,” The Rachofsky House, Dallas, Texas, 2003 – 2004
2004“…So Fresh, So Cool!,” Galleria Cardi, Milan, 21 June – 18 September 2004
2005“Open Systems: Rethinking Art c. 1970,” Tate Modern, London, 1 June – 18 September 2005
“Looking at Words; The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper,” Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, 28 October – 3 December 2005.
“Art and its Materials,” Galleria Cardi & co., Milan, Italy, 24 November 2005 – 21 January 2006
2006“Contemporary Masterworks: Saint Louis Collects,” Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, 7 April – 11 June 2006.
2007“Italian Visions: 40 Years of Art," Vivian Horan Fine Art, New York, 20 February - 13 April 2007.
2007-2008“Vent’Anni con Gli Amici: 1987-2007.” Galleria in Arco, Torino, 10 November 2007 – 12 January 2008 (catalogue)
2008“Red Sky,” Luhring Augustine, New York, 21 January – 16 February 2008
“Je Est un Autre,” Galleria Roma, Rome, Italy, 26 February -3 May 2008
“In Their Own Words,” Friedman Benda, New York, 23 February- 31 March 2008
2009“1968. The Great Innocents,” Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany, 15 March 2009 - 2 August 2009
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1972Trini, Tommaso, "ABEEGHIIILOORTT," Data, Rome.
 Bandini, Mirella, "Intervista a Alighiero Boetti," Torino.
 Trini, Tommaso, "The Sixties in Italy," Studio International, Lugano.
1973"Contemporanea," Catalogue, Centro di Roma.
 "X Quadriennale di Roma," Catalogue.
 Arts Council of Belfast and Hendriks Gallery of Dublin, Catalogue.
 Stielman, Paul, "Alighiero e Boetti," Arts Magazine, June.
 Lippard, Lucy, "Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object," Frederich A. Praeger, New York.
 Boice, Bruce, "Alighiero Boetti," Artforum, New York.
1974Read, Herbert, "A Concise History of Modern Painting," Thames and Hudson, London.
 Kozloff, Max, "Eight Contemporary Artists," Museum of Modern Art, New York.
 Cora, Bruno, "A Conversation with Alighiero Boetti," November, Rome.
 "Alighiero e Boetti," Catalogue, Art Museum of Lucerne, Lucerne.
1975Fagiolo Dell'Arco, Maurizio, "Il Principio di non Averne," Il Messaggero, June, Rome.
 Trini, Tommaso, "Alighiero Boetti," Data, August, Milan.
 Bonita Oliva, Achille, "La Creazione Dell'Oggetto," Il Giorno, July, Rome.
 Barilli, Renato, "L'Arte Moderna," Fasciolo, no. 107, Milan.
 "Ordine - Disordine," Aera, Rome.
1976"Ne' Testa Ne' Coda," La Citta Di Riga/La Nuova Foglio Editrice, Catalogue.
 Paolini, Alicide, "Tra Contestazione E Mercificatiozione," Studio Marconi, Milan.
 Battista Salerno, Giovan, "Alighiero e Boetti," Bolletino Studio Marconi, March.
 Santi, Floriano, "Tempo Dell'Immagine," Bresciaoggi, June, Brescia.
 Trini, Tommaso, "Alighiero e Boetti, Insicuro Noncurante Perche' Leonardesco," Data, May, Milan.
 Bonito Oliva, Achille, "Process, Concept, and Behavior in Italian Art," Studio International, London.
 Vergine, Lea, "Dall'Informale alla Body Art," Studio Forma, Turin.
 Boetti, A. "Four Pages of Works," Studio International, June, London.
 Oliva, Achille Bonito, "Europa America - The Different Avant - Garde," Rome.
1978"The Thousand Longest Rivers in the World," Multipla, Milan.
 Diacono, Mario, Il segno del disegno, l'autenticita della copia nel massaggio del medium, Bologna, 1978.
 Sartor, Paolo Mussat, Arte e Artisti in Italia, Turin, 1978.
 Alighiero Boetti, Catalogue, Kunsthalle Basel, Bale.
1979"Testo ad uso degli abitanti di Gavirate," Pro Loco, Gavirate.
 "Da mille a mille," Domus, no. 595, June.
1980"Da uno a dieci," Milan.
1981Identite Italienne, L'art en Italie depuis 1959, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
1982Acrobat mime parfait, Bologna, 1982.
 Celant, Germano, Arte povra antiform, CAPC, Bordeaux, 1982.
1983"Clessidra Cerniera Vicerversa," Domus, no. 637, March.
1984Burnett, A., Que reste-t-il? ed. Over Studio, Turin, March 1984.
 Oliva, Achille Bonito, Dialoghi d'artista - incontri con l'arte contemporanea 1970 - 84, Milan, 1984.
 Il modo Italiano, Catalogue, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1984.
1985Levi, Corrado, Una diversa tradizione, Milan, 1985.
 Alberto Boatto: Alighiero & Boetti, Catalogue, Pinacoteca Communale, Ravenne, 1985.
1988Heartney, Eleanor, "Alighiero e Boetti at John Wever," Art in America, May 1988, p. 190.
 Gran Pavese, The Flag Project, Stichting Gran Pavese, Rotterdam, (SDU Publishers: The Netherlands, 1988)
1989"Toward Arte Povera," Contemporanea, March/April 1989, pp. 80-86.
 Vetroco, Maria E., "Utopias, Nomads, Critics, From Arte Povera to the Transavanguardia," Arts Magazine, April 1989, pp. 49-59.
 Laurenza, Minmo, "Alighiero e Boetti reveiw at Pio Marti," Juliet, February-April 1989, p. 59.
 Hutner Christina, "Aspekte der italienischer Avantgarde von 1945 bis heute," Kunstforum, March/April 1989, pp. 284-285
 Magnami, Gregorio, "Verso l'Art Povera," Flash Art, May/June 1989, p. 135
 Alighiero e Boetti, (catalogue), Edward Totah Gallery, London, 1989
 Salerno, Giovan Battista,, "Squares, Thoughts, and Smiles. Alighiero & Boetti," Tema Celeste, April-June, pp. 29-31
 Techniche nell' Arte, Societa Poligrafica Editrice, (group catalogue), Tridente Quattro, Rome, 1989
1991Ammann, Jean-Christphe, Giovan Battista Salermo, Ranier Crone/David Moos, Freidmann Malsch, Jean-Pierre Bordaz, "Alighiero e Boetti," Parkett 24, 1990
 Simoni, Serena, review, Titolo, Spring 1991, p. 51.
 Cyphers, Peggy, review, Arts Magazine, February 1991, p. 97.
 McEvilley, Thomas, "Enormous Changes at the Last Minute," Artforum, October 1991, pp. 86 - 87
 Gallusantage, 4 September 1991, 144-146.
 Simoni, Serena, "Alighiero Boetti," Titolo, Summer, 1991, pp. 51.
 Comi, Enrico, "Conversation With Leo Castelli," Human Space, 1991, pp. 84, 140-1441 (photo)
1994Sperone, Gian Enzo, and Achille Bonito Oliva, La Metafora Trovata: 30 years, Galleria Sperone, 30 anni (Rome: Galleria Sperone, 1994)
 "MoMA News and Exhibitions," Flash Art, Vol. XXVII, no. 177, Summer 1994, Flash Art News, p. 37.
 Smith, Roberta, "Mapping," The New York Times, Art in Review, Friday, October 14, 1994.
 Newhall, Edith, "Talent from the Italian Collection," New York Magazine, October 24, 1994, Vol.27, No.42, p.97.
 Adams, Brooks, "25 Things to Know about Alighiero e Boetti," Interview, October 1994, p. 98.
 Morgan, Robert C., "Systemic Cosmologist," Cover Magazine, November 1994,
 p. 38.
 Smith, Roberta, "A Bonding of Different Cultures," The New York Times, Friday,
 December 9, 1994, p. C23.
 Heartney, Eleanor," Mapping: Museum of Modern Art," Art Presse, December 1994, No. 197, pp. IV-V.
1995Panzera, Lisa, "Alighiero e Boetti," Artnews, January 1995, Vol. 94, No. 1, p.163
 Canning, Sue, "Mapping," Art Papers, January & February 1995, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 57-58.
 Heartney, Eleanor, "Alighiero e Boetti and Frederic Bruly Bouabre at Dia," Art in America, April 1995, Vol. 83, No. 4, p. 101.
 Tradition & Innovation: Italian Art since 1945, (National Museum of Contemporary Art: Seoul, Korea, 1995)
1996Alighiero Boetti: Rétrospective, exhibition catalogue by Jean-Christophe Ammann, Maria Teresa Roberto, and Anne-Marie Sauzeau (Turin: Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, and Milan:Edizioni Gabriele Mazzotta, 1996)
1997Atlas Mapping, exhibition catalogue edited by Paolo Bianchi and Sabine Folie (Linz: Offenes Kulturhaus Linz, Bregenz: Kunsthaus Bregenz and Magazin 4, and Vienna: Verlag Turia + Kant, 1997), pp. 34, 38.
 Buchloh, Benjamin H. D., "Sculpture Projects in Munster," Artforum, vol. 36 no. 1 (September 1997), pp. 115-117.
 Arte Povera: Arbeiten und Dokumente aus der Sammlung Goetz, 1958 bis heute, exhibition catalogue edited by Ingvild Goetz and Christiane Meyer-Stoll, with essays by Mirella Bandini, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Nike Bätzner, Maddalena Disch, Bruno Corà, et al. (Munich: Sammlung Goetz, 1997)
 Camnitzer, Luis, "Italians, Flemish, and Dutch," Art Nexus, no. 26 (October-September 1997), pp. 93-95
1998 Change of Scene XIII, exhibition brochure by Jean-Christophe Ammann, Frankfurt: Museum für Moderne Kunst, 1998).
 Davis, Jordan, "Alighiero e Boetti: Postal Travels, Works on Paper, Documents and More, 1965-1992," On Paper, vol. 2 no. 4 (March-April 1998), p. 50
 Jarton, Cyril, "La peinture générique," Art Press, no. 235 (May 1998), p. 28-33
 Terra Incognita: Alighiero e Boetti, Vija Celmins, Neil Jenney, Jean-Luc
 Mylayne, Hiroshi Sugimoto, exhibition catalogue by Lynne Cooke, with essays by Stephen Bann, and Michael Newman (Bremen: Neues Museum Weserburg, 1998)
 Schwabsky, Barry, "Alighiero Boetti: Esso Gallery," Artforum, vol. 36 no. 9 (May 1998), pp. 146-147
 Unfinished History, exhibition catalogue by Francesco Bonami, (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1998).
1999Allianz & Kunst, catalogue of the collection of Bayerische Versicherungsbank AG, Allianz Versicherungs-AG, with forewords by Dr. Michael Albert and Harald Szeemann, Anderland Verlag, München, 1999.
 Frankel, David, "Alighiero e Boetti," Artforum, vol. XXXVIII, no. 1, (September, 99), p.40.
2000Le Temps, vite, Exhibition catalogue by Jean-Pierre Criqui, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, (Editions du Centre Pompidou, 2000)
 Groom, Simon, "Fontana, Boetti and Pistoletto," Modern Painters, (Winter 2000) pp. 113-114
 "Arte Povera," tema celeste, n. 77 ( January-February, 2000) p. 147
 Fox, Dan, "Alighiero e Twenty-two points, plus triple-word-score, plus fifty points for using all my letters. Game's over. I'm outta here.Boetti," frieze, (February 2000) pp. 105-106
 Sussman, Elisabeth "Report from Oporto; Sorting Out the '60s" Art in America, Vol.88, No. 3 (March 2000) pp. 58-59,61, 63
 Schwabsky, Barry, "Alighiero E Boetti," Arforum, XXXVIII, no. 0 (February 2000) p. 115
 "Alighiero Boetti," Ground Art and Culture, Issue #1 (February 2000)
 Glueck, Grace, "Alighiero Boetti 'Works on Paper'," The New York Times, March 17, 2000, E37.
 Gian Enzo Sperone; Torino, Roma, New York; 35 Anni di Mostra tra Europa e America, 2000, pp. 52, 136-137, 145, 166, 200, 255.
 da Warhol al 2000, Palazzo Cavour, Regione Piemonte, exhibition catalogue, 2000, p. 64.
 Pugliese, Marina, Le Tecniche e I Materiali Nell'Arte Contemporanea, Arti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, 2000.
2001Scott, Andrea K., "Alighiero e Boetti," Time Out New York, 8-15 March 2001, p. 55.
 Johnson, Ken, "Alighiero e Boetti," The New York Times, 23 March 2001, p. E35.
 Dannatt, Adrian, "Adrian Dannatt's guide to New York contemporary galleries;
 Death and rebirth as a Modern Master: Alighiero e Boetti," The Art Newspaper, March 2001.
 The Whitechapel Art Gallery Centenary Review, Exhibition catalogue,
 Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 2001, p. 119.
 Johnson, Ken, "Art Guide: Alighiero e Boetti," The New York Times, 25 May 2001, E30.
 Vetrocq, Marcia E., "Rules of the Game," Art in America, July 2001, pp. 86-93, 113.
 Gopnik, Blake, "Off the Beaten Track, Stamps of Approval," Washington Post,13 May 2001, p. G6.
 Gioni, Massimiliano, "New York Cut Up," Flash Art, May/June 2001, pp. 97-99.
 Goodrow, Gérard, A., "Art of Communication," Christie's Magazine, June/July/August 2001, pp. 78-81.
 Flood, Richard, "Liquid Plumber," Artforum, September 2001, pp. 164-165.
Boetti, Annemarie Sauzeau, Alighiero e Boetti, “Shaman-Showman”, Umberto Allemandi & C., 2001.
"Green on Greene," Sperone Westwater, New York (ex.cat.)
Yablonsky, Linda, “Green on Greene,” Time Out New York, 22-29 November, p. 58.
2002Newhall, Edith, “Fine Penmanship,” New York, 11 February, p. 86.
Johnson, Ken, “Alighiero e Boetti,” The New York Times, 15 February, p. E46.
"Alighiero e Boetti: ‘Simmetria Asimmetria’," essay by Annemarie Sauzeau Boetti, Sperone Westwater, New York (ex.cat.)
“Alighiero e Boetti,” text by James Rondeau, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago (ex.cat.)
Stein, Lisa, “Exhibit explores curious mind of Alighiero Boetti,” Chicago Tribune, March 20.
Smith, Roberta, “Midcentury Italian Art That Still Eggs on the Irreverent,” The New York Times, November, p. E41.
2003Sauzeau, Annamaria, “Alighiero e Boetti: Shaman – Showman,” Cologne/Turin, 2003.
Harmon, Katharine, “You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination,” New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2004 (illus. p. 94)
2004“Alighiero Boetti – Quasi Tutto (Almost Everything),” edited by Emanuela De Cecco, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy and Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires, 2004 (ex. cat.)
Maharaj, Sarat, “A Double-Cressing Visible Grammer: Around and About the Work of Alighiero e Boetti,” from Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art, New York: Dia Art Foundation, 2004, pp. 35-45
Schwabsky, Barry, “Alighiero e Boetti: Shaman-Showman,” Bookforum, Summer 2004, p. 54
2005“Open Systems: Rethinking Art c. 1970,” Exhibition catalogue, Tate Modern, London, 1 June – 18 September 2005
Douglas, Kris. “Richard Flood,” Contemporary 2121, Issue 77, pp. 54-57.
2006Roseberg, David, et al. The Perlstein Collection: From Dada to Contemporary Art. Gent: Ludion, p. 384.
2007 Beatrice, Luca. “Galleria in Arco: Vent’Anni con Gli Amici 1987-2007.” Torino: Galleria in Arco, 2007, p. 130.
2008Panicelli, Ida. “Alighiero Boetti,” Artforum, January 2008, p. 279.
Celant, Germano. “Arte Povera,” Flash Art, July/September 2008, p 119 – 121.
Adams, Brooks. “On the Road to a State of Grace.” Tate Etc., Issue 13, Summer 2008, pp. 32-39.

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