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Alighiero Boetti (Italian, 1940-1994). Guatemala. 1974. 4 photographs Each: 10 5/8 x 7 1/2” (27 x 19 cm). Collection Agata and Matteo Boetti, Rome. © 2012 Estate of Alighiero Boetti / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE, Rome.

The Game Plan of Alighiero Boetti at MoMA

One of the most influential Italian artists of the twentieth century, Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994) is subject of a major exhibition at MoMA (New York, USA). This retrospective has been organized in collaboration with the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid and the Tate Modern in London. Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan is the first large-scale retrospective of Boetti's work to be held outside Italy in over a decade highlighting his often playful exploration of numeric, linguistic and classificatory systems, as well as his engagement with the people and politics of Afghanistan.
 
Boetti has most commonly been associated with the Italian Arte Povera artists of the late 1960s. While this exhibition begins with his Arte Povera objects made from everyday materials, including Stack 1966 and Little Coloured Sticks 1968, it also reveals his early scepticism about art movements through such works as his mock Manifesto 1967.

In the late 1960s Boetti began to explore the figure of the artist, showing how it embodied the dual roles of divine shaman and public showman. He went on to represent himself as a pair of twins and change his name to Alighiero E Boetti (Alighiero and Boetti). Alongside these early self portraits, the exhibition will also include the late Self-Portrait 1993, a life-size bronze cast of the artist spraying his head with a hose, never seen before in the UK.
 
Dates: from July 1 to October 1.
Location: Tate Modern. Bankside. Londres SE1 9TG. United Kingdom.
Opening hours: from Sunday to Thursday from 10am to 6pm. Fridays and Saturdays from 10am to 10pm.

See some of the artworks in the following slideshow:

France
Retrato de Arlete Boucard, por Tamara de Lempicka, 1928

Tamara de Lempicka, the artist as femme fatale

Until September 8th, 2013

United Kingdom

Summer arrives to the Royal Academy

From June 10th to August 18th

Italy
Lara Almárcequi, Venice Biennale

Art (and Biennale) in Venice

Until Novemberl 24th

Holland
Autorretrato como artista,  por Van Gogh, 1887, Museo Van Gogh, Ámsterdam.

Van Gogh: radiograph of an innovator

Until January 12th, 2014

USA
Rain Room, by Random International, 2012

Instructions for controlling the rain

Until July 28th, 2013

Spain
Autorretrato, por Dennis Hopper, 1963, Los Angeles.The Dennis Hopper Art Trust

Through the lens of Dennis Hopper

Until September 29th 2013

Spain

Dalí: All his faces

From April 27th to September 2nd, 2013

México

Retrospective devoted to Rafael Coronel

from September 21 to January 13

Germany

Frank Stella. The Retrospective. Works 1958-2012

from September 8 to January 20

Spain

Zaha Hadid at Ivorypress

from September 4 to November 3

United Kingdom

Renaissance to Goya: Prints and drawings from Spain

from September 20 to January 6

Germany

Olympia: Myth - Cult - Games

through January 7

Sweden

Picasso, enemy of Duchamp

through March 3

Germany

Dark Romanticism. From Goya to Max Ernst

from September 26 to January 20

The Netherlands

'The Last Supper' (pink) by Andy Warhol

from October 6 to November 11

Australia

The Museo del Prado in Australia

until November 4

Spain

Antoni Tàpies. Head arms legs body

through November 4

Spain

William Blake. Visions in British Art

through October 21

Spain

The Mexican suitcase at the Fine Arts Circle in Madrid

from July 19 to September 30.

Spain

Luis Claramunt. The Vertical Journey

from July 13 to October 21

Spain

Picasso viewed by Otero

until September 23

United Kingdom

Van Gogh to Kandinsky: Symbolist Landscape in Europe 1880-1910

from July 14 to October 14.

United Kingdom

Metamorphosis: Titian 2012

from July 11 to September 23

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