{"id":1334,"date":"2012-08-24T21:53:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T01:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=1334"},"modified":"2012-08-24T21:53:35","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T01:53:35","slug":"alighiero-boetti-at-the-museum-of-modern-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/24\/alighiero-boetti-at-the-museum-of-modern-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Alighiero Boetti at the Museum of Modern Art"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alighiero Boetti, installation view at the Museum of Modern Art, Aug, 2012.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Alighiero Boetti\u2019s gorgeous installation in the MoMA<\/a>\u2019s atrium defies Sol LeWitt\u2019s oft-quoted 1967 remark about conceptual art that \u2018all of the planning and decisions [for a work of art] are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair.\u2019 In \u2018Mappa\u2019 from the 70s and 80s (on the back wall) and kilims from 1993 (in the foreground) Boetti commissioned his artwork from Afghan craftswomen, ensuring that execution shares the spotlight with conceptual content while recalling Minimalist seriality and Jasper Johns\u2019 proto-Pop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alighiero Boetti\u2019s gorgeous installation in the MoMA\u2019s atrium defies Sol LeWitt\u2019s oft-quoted 1967 remark about conceptual art that \u2018all of the planning and decisions [for a work of art] are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair.\u2019 In \u2018Mappa\u2019 from the 70s and 80s (on the back wall) and kilims from 1993 (in … <\/p>\n

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