1988, Alighiero Boetti, Today the Nineteenth Day of the Eighth Month of the Year OneThousandNine100Eighty-Eight -- National Gallery of Art (Washington)

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Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994) was a major figure of international conceptualism and one of the leading artists associated with the Arte Povera movement in Italy. The artist's most iconic works are the embroideries he began to produce in Afghanistan in 1971 and later in Pakistan after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. Boetti worked with Afghan women embroiderers to produce three types of work: Arazzi (word-square tapestries), Mappi (maps), and Tutti (representations of "everything").

An example of the artist's Arazzi, Oggi diciannovesimo giorno ottavo mese dell'anno millenove1000ttantotto (Today the Nineteenth Day of the Eighth Month of the Year One Thousand Nine100Eighty-Eight), is comprised of 25 rows of Latin letters combined with four texts in Farsi, the spoken language of the work's fabricators, who were then living in exile in Peshawar. Boetti determined the layout of the letters, which contain messages in Italian and English and are generally organized into 4 x 4 grids. The embroiderers selected the color scheme and the Farsi texts that reference their names, the equine game of buzkashi (the national sport of Afghanistan, "land of the horse-riders"), and Afghan Independence Day. The work is a recent acquisition and the first by Boetti to enter the National Gallery collection.

Taken on: April 25, 2023

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