Alighiero Boetti at Museo Reina Sofía

The Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid, Spain), in collaboration with Tate Modern and Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), organize the exhibition Alighiero Boetti. game plan, which will be running until February 5, 2012.

This show, which brings together over one hundred pieces from different moments in Boetti's artistic activity, includes some of his earliest productions, still close to arte povera (for example, Lampada annuale, a box of wood with a light bulb that lights up once a year for eleven seconds), and also pieces that are basic to the development of his discourse, such as the mail art piece Viaggi postali or the mysterious and evocative Aerei (1978-1989), which consists of large panels, done in ballpoint pen or watercolour, where numerous airplanes can be seen criss-crossing the sky.

Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994), who identified with arte povera early in his career but soon distanced himself from this movement, was a prolific, unclassifiable artist who, trying to avoid any form of artistic self absorption, explored different modes and degrees of collaboration throughout his career.

His oeuvre can be placed within the context of relational aesthetics and in his art notions such as multiplicity, duality and division play a key role (thus his decision in 1972 to starting signing his work Alighiero e Boetti) and a balance is sought between the intellectual and the sensible, order and disorder, individuality and collectivity.

Date: until February 5.
Location: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Santa Isabel 52, 28012. Madrid. Spain.
Opening hours: from Monday to Saturday from 10am to 9pm. Sundays from 10am to 2.30pm.