(Turin 1940–1994 Rome)
Untiteld (Macchina fotografica), 1965, dated, signed gennaio 65, A. Boetti, ink on paper on masonite, 100 x 71 cm, in plexiglass box (AR)

The work has been registerd in the archivio Alighiero Boetti, Rome under the archive no. 106

Provenance:
Galleria Cardi, Milan (certificate available), (label on the reverse)
European Private Collection

Exhibition: Milan, Galleria Cardi, Alighiero Boetti, Francesco Clemente Gino De Dominicis, Nicola de Maria, Mimmo Paladino, Richard Tuttle, 1 July - 30 September 1999, exh. cat. no. 1, with ill.
Venice, XLIX Esposizione Internazionaled’Arte - La Biennale di Venezia, solo exhibition, Alighiero Boetti. Niente da vedere niente da nascondere, 10 June - 4 Novmeber 2001, exh. cat. p. 33 with ill.
Cosenza, Palazzo Arnone, ALIGHIEROEBOETTI, 17 December 2005 – 26 February 2006, exh. cat. 24 with ill.

Literature:
Jean Christophe Amman, Alighiero Boetti. Catalogo generale, Mondadori Electa, Milan 2009, vol. I, p.140, no. 63 with ill.

In 1965, Boetti devoted himself to a cycle of about fifty ink drawings: clear-cut, markedly two-dimensional silhouettes, simplified forms of industrial appliances – desk lamps, microphones, film cameras and photographic cameras. A common feature of these drawings is that they point directly towards the viewer – as if they were recording his reactions – and are executed with great technical skills characteristic of an industrial designer. And yet, despite their extremely precise execution, they convey a feeling of vaguely metaphysical anguish and alienation.
Within the context of Boetti’s rich and varied output, they also stick out on the grounds of the preponderance of the artist’s direct intervention during their execution.

“With microphones, photographic devices, film cameras, lamps and displays I wanted to create situations that would be able to engage the viewer with a new dimension. In other words, theatre.
(Alighiero Boetti)