Alighiero e Boetti "Mappa"
Gladstone Gallery (Chelsea 21th Street)
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Gladstone Gallery and the Fondazione Alighiero e Boetti, working in close association with the Archivio Alighiero Boetti, presents the first ever retrospective entirely dedicated to Alighiero e Boetti’s Mappa series.
During his second voyage to Afghanistan in 1971, Boetti pondered the idea of the first Mappa: He commissioned Afghan craftswomen, who following the artist’s directives, hand-embroidered a map of the world in which the geopolitical boundaries were filled with each country’s flag. This first piece began a twenty-year collaboration that continued until the artist’s premature death in 1994. Viewed as an ongoing series, they bring to light the man-made divisions drawn over the continents and chart the political realities of the world from the early 1970s through the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the USSR.
[Image: Alighiero e Boetti "Mappa" (1979) Embroidered fabric 48 3/8 x 68 7/8 in.]
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from November 07, 2009 to January 23, 2010