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Alighiero Boetti

<p>This monumental work by the conceptual artist Alighiero Boetti is from his eponymous ‘Ononimo’ series; it is the largest of the Biro (ballpoint pen) works along with I sei sensi. There are five works of this scale in the series, another of which is housed at the Municipal Museum of Art in Toyota, Japan.</p><p><em>Ononimo</em>, 1973, consists of 11 panels of minutely hatched marks of ballpoint pen with the title left exposed in white at the top. The title is a play on the Italian words <em>anonimo </em>(anonymous) and <em>omonimo</em> (homonymous – words having the same spelling or pronunciation but different meanings). It references Boetti’s radical notion that the authorship of a work of art is not dependent on physical production. Indeed, much of Boetti’s work was delegated to ‘anonymous’ artisans. Their roles in executing Boetti’s ideas – from his mosaic-like word grids, geopolitical maps, and various tapestries to his Biro works – are what give essence to his output. Ononimo is a superb example of this groundbreaking dialogue.</p><p><strong>Alighiero Boetti </strong>(born 1940 in Turin; died 1994 in Rome) manipulated a photograph in 1968 to create an image of himself holding hands with his ‘twin.’ In the early 1970s he began to insert an ‘e’ between his first and last names to become ‘Alighiero e Boetti’ to dilute attachments to authorship and address the omnipresence of dualities.</p>

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Ononimo

Ben Brown Fine Arts

OVR: Basel

This monumental work by the conceptual artist Alighiero Boetti is...