Alighiero Boetti : I Colori

14 Oct-13 Dec 2014

Overview

Early in his career, in 1967, Alighiero Boetti embarked up on a new series of monochrome works of superimposed prefabricated cork letters centred upon uniformly square wood and metal panels coloured by a single industrial pigment. This body of works with its hard-edged, modern, glossy, urban feel is one that has been relatively unexplored and uncelebrated in Boetti’s oeuvre. The monochrome panels articulated a shift in the historical experience of colour, blurring its objective boundaries, reflecting the wider exploration of language and its definition that was to preoccupy Boetti throughout his career.