Alighiero e Boetti | "Probing the Mysteries of a Double Life", 1990 | (for Parkett 24)
The artist’s double rendering of twin subjects, separated by red color poured in the fold, is reminiscent of a Rorschach test. With an “and” between his first and last name, Boetti doubled his identity in the 1970s.
Read a Parkett Text on Alighiero e Boetti
Parkett Vol. 24
Quote from Parkett
“The works of Alighiero e Boetti open onto the world, onto the fluid passage of forms; they capture chaos without diminishing it, and one can always cross over from one work into another, while maintaining the same degree of precision, which demonstrates everything with the facts. If there is a route, it is one that leads where routes branch out, bifurcate and multiply. If there is a key, it is a passe-partout that opens and at the same time ‘closes’ every frame, every possible door.”
Giovan Battista Salerno, Parkett No. 24, 1990
"Probing the Mysteries of a Double Life", 1990 (for Parkett 24)
Collotype (Granolitho),
overpainted by hand in red,
19 5/8 x 27 1/2” (49,8 x 69,8 cm),
printed by Lichtdruck AG, Dielsdorf, Switzerland,
Ed. 100/XX, signed bottom right, and numbered left.
Very limited availability. Complimentary shipping.
The artist’s double rendering of twin subjects, separated by red color poured in the fold, is reminiscent of a Rorschach test. With an “and” between his first and last name, Boetti doubled his identity in the 1970s.
Read a Parkett Text on Alighiero e Boetti
Parkett Vol. 24
Quote from Parkett
“The works of Alighiero e Boetti open onto the world, onto the fluid passage of forms; they capture chaos without diminishing it, and one can always cross over from one work into another, while maintaining the same degree of precision, which demonstrates everything with the facts. If there is a route, it is one that leads where routes branch out, bifurcate and multiply. If there is a key, it is a passe-partout that opens and at the same time ‘closes’ every frame, every possible door.”
Giovan Battista Salerno, Parkett No. 24, 1990
"Probing the Mysteries of a Double Life", 1990 (for Parkett 24)
Collotype (Granolitho),
overpainted by hand in red,
19 5/8 x 27 1/2” (49,8 x 69,8 cm),
printed by Lichtdruck AG, Dielsdorf, Switzerland,
Ed. 100/XX, signed bottom right, and numbered left.
Very limited availability. Complimentary shipping.
The artist’s double rendering of twin subjects, separated by red color poured in the fold, is reminiscent of a Rorschach test. With an “and” between his first and last name, Boetti doubled his identity in the 1970s.
Read a Parkett Text on Alighiero e Boetti
Parkett Vol. 24
Quote from Parkett
“The works of Alighiero e Boetti open onto the world, onto the fluid passage of forms; they capture chaos without diminishing it, and one can always cross over from one work into another, while maintaining the same degree of precision, which demonstrates everything with the facts. If there is a route, it is one that leads where routes branch out, bifurcate and multiply. If there is a key, it is a passe-partout that opens and at the same time ‘closes’ every frame, every possible door.”
Giovan Battista Salerno, Parkett No. 24, 1990
"Probing the Mysteries of a Double Life", 1990 (for Parkett 24)
Collotype (Granolitho),
overpainted by hand in red,
19 5/8 x 27 1/2” (49,8 x 69,8 cm),
printed by Lichtdruck AG, Dielsdorf, Switzerland,
Ed. 100/XX, signed bottom right, and numbered left.
Very limited availability. Complimentary shipping.
Artist Documents
Images 1 & 2 show Alighiero e Boetti working on his edition for Parkett 24, and applying the red paint running vertically down the center of the print.
Image 3 shows the special edition T-shirt “My point of view”, which Boetti made for Parkett in four languages.
Parkett Text
Read a Selected Text on Aligiero E Boetti
Parkett Cover
Alighierro e Boetti’s work on the cover of Parkett no. 24
Artist Document
The actual magazine cover from which Boetti then created "Probing the Mysteries of a Double Life", his edition for Parkett 24.
