Lot No. 255


Alighiero Boetti *


(Turin 1940–1994 Rom)
Il progressivo svanir della consuetudine - The Progressive Fading of Habit, 1989, signed on the reverse, embroidery on canvas on wooden board, 32.2 x 33.5 cm

Photo Certificate:
Archivio Alighiero Boetti, Rome, 20 March 2024, archive-no.10461.

Provenance:
Private Collection North Rhine-Westphalia

“... I have worked a great deal on the concept of order and disorder: disrupting order or imposing order on certain types of disorder, or even presenting visual disorder that in fact represented mental order...
Faced with these seemingly antithetical pairs of concepts, I think that everything contains its opposite, so preferably the approach should be to reset the concepts, to spread them out, to explain them; just as one can unfold a sheet of paper, so one can create order and disorder in a pair or a class of concepts, without ever favouring one of the two opposing terms, but on the contrary always seeking the one in the other: order in disorder, the natural in the artificial, shadow in light and vice-versa.”
Alighiero Boetti, quoted in: Germano Celant (Ed.), Alighiero Boetti, Skira, Milan 2001, p. 79

Specialist: Dr. Petra Maria Schäpers Dr. Petra Maria Schäpers
+49 211 2107747

petra.schaepers@dorotheum.de

23.05.2024 - 18:00

Realized price: **
EUR 68,640.-
Estimate:
EUR 60,000.- to EUR 80,000.-

Alighiero Boetti *


(Turin 1940–1994 Rom)
Il progressivo svanir della consuetudine - The Progressive Fading of Habit, 1989, signed on the reverse, embroidery on canvas on wooden board, 32.2 x 33.5 cm

Photo Certificate:
Archivio Alighiero Boetti, Rome, 20 March 2024, archive-no.10461.

Provenance:
Private Collection North Rhine-Westphalia

“... I have worked a great deal on the concept of order and disorder: disrupting order or imposing order on certain types of disorder, or even presenting visual disorder that in fact represented mental order...
Faced with these seemingly antithetical pairs of concepts, I think that everything contains its opposite, so preferably the approach should be to reset the concepts, to spread them out, to explain them; just as one can unfold a sheet of paper, so one can create order and disorder in a pair or a class of concepts, without ever favouring one of the two opposing terms, but on the contrary always seeking the one in the other: order in disorder, the natural in the artificial, shadow in light and vice-versa.”
Alighiero Boetti, quoted in: Germano Celant (Ed.), Alighiero Boetti, Skira, Milan 2001, p. 79

Specialist: Dr. Petra Maria Schäpers Dr. Petra Maria Schäpers
+49 211 2107747

petra.schaepers@dorotheum.de


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Auction: Contemporary Art I
Auction type: Saleroom auction with Live Bidding
Date: 23.05.2024 - 18:00
Location: Vienna | Palais Dorotheum
Exhibition: 11.05. - 23.05.2024


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