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25/6/2012

Alighiero Boetti

The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA, New York

Alighiero Boetti

Game Plan. A full retrospective

Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan marks the largest presentation of works by Alighiero Boetti (Italian, 1940–1994) in the United States to date. A full retrospective spanning the artist’s entire career, the exhibition will be on view in two locations in the Museum from July 1 to October 1, 2012. Celebrating the material diversity, conceptual complexity, and visual beauty of Boetti’s work, the exhibition brings together approximately 100 works across many mediums that address Boetti’s ideas about order and disorder, non-invention, and the way in which the work is concerned with the whole world, travel, and time. Proving him to be one of the most important and influential international artists of his generation, the exhibition focuses on several thematic threads, demonstrating the artist’s interest in exploring recurring motifs in his work instead of a linear development. In The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art Exhibition Gallery on the sixth floor, the exhibition will feature works from the first 15 years of the artist’s career, while works in the Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium on the second floor are drawn from the latter part of his career, focused on Boetti’s embroidered pieces and woven rugs. Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan is organized in collaboration with the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid and the Tate Modern in London, where the exhibition was previously on view, and is organized at The Museum of Modern Art by Christian Rattemeyer, The Harvey S. Shipley Miller Associate Curator of Drawings.

Working in his hometown of Turin in the early 1960s among a close community of artists that included Luciano Fabro, Mario Merz, Giulio Paolini, and Michelangelo Pistoletto, among others, Boetti established himself as one of the leading artists of the Arte Povera movement. Organized chronologically, the MoMA exhibition will begin with his sculptural objects, comprising everyday “hardware store” materials including wooden sticks, cardboard, and fiber cement tubes. Brought together (many for the first time since Boetti’s seminal exhibition at Galleria Christian Stein in Turin in 1967) and installed in a dense configuration inspired by the original clustered presentation, these early works convey the material experiments of the period and already suggest notions of measurement and chance that Boetti would play with and revise throughout his career.

While Boetti is often chiefly affiliated with the Arte Povera moment, this exhibition will consider Boetti beyond these brief years. In 1969 Boetti began exploring notions of duality and multiplicity (famously ‘twinning’ himself into ‘Alighiero e Boetti’), order and disorder, travel and geography, and he initiated postal and map works imagining distant places. For the work Viaggi Postali, begun the summer of 1969, Boetti sent envelopes to friends, family, and fellow artists but used imaginary addresses, forwarding each returned envelope to yet another non-existent place, thus creating imaginary journeys for the people he admired. The exhibition brings together this and other works related to travel, geography, and mapping, many of which relate to his extensive travels to Afghanistan, where he operated the One Hotel as an artist’s project from 1971 until the Soviet invasion in 1979 (archival materials from that project will be on view). During this period, Boetti began working with local artisans to produce embroideries such as the Mappas (maps), Arazzi (word squares), and Tutto (literally, “Everything”), culminating in his multi-year research project to classify the 1000 longest rivers in the world: an idea equally poetic and scientific, rigorous and absurd.

An important aspect of Boetti’s oeuvre is drawing, which runs as a constant throughout his work. A monumental Biro (ball point pen) drawing from 1973, spelling out the title “Mettere al mondo il mondo (Bringing the world into the world)” points to some of Boetti’s ideas about art making that were fundamental to his practice: that the artist, rather than inventing, simply brings what already exists in the world into the work; and that everything in the world is potentially useful for the artist.

The exhibition is made possible by the generous support of two anonymous donors.

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Live music returns to the Sculpture Garden this summer with MoMA nights every thursday and annual Summergarden Concerts

MoMA Extends Museum Hours for the Summer Months

NEW YORK, May 2, 2012—This summer, live music performances return to The Museum of Modern Art’s Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden with MoMA Nights on Thursdays in July and August and Summergarden concerts on four Sundays in July. In addition, MoMA will extend its hours by opening from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Tuesdays (June 26 through September 25), a day the Museum is usually closed, and until 8:00 p.m. on Thursdays (July 5 through August 30), providing the public with more opportunities to enjoy the Museum’s renowned collection and special exhibitions.

MoMA Nights will feature live music at 6:30 p.m., in the Sculpture Garden (weather permitting). MoMA Nights concerts are free with Museum admission and feature an international and innovative selection of live music. In addition to an evening of Brazilian music in celebration of the 10th anniversary of Premiere Brazil!, MoMA’s annual collaboration with the Rio de Janeiro Film Festival, audiences can expect African Soukous music, Colombian traditional folkloric Cumbia, Bubu music of Sierra Leone, virtuosic American guitar, an arresting experimental-pop singer/songwriter, and a concert of John Cage’s percussion music commemorating the 2012 John Cage centenary.

Further concert details will be available in late-May. The MoMA Nights music series is organized in collaboration with Olivier Conan, programmer and co-owner of Barbès performance space in Brooklyn.

During MoMA Nights, there will be a cash bar (specialty cocktails, draft beer, wine, and nonalcoholic beverages) and seasonal tapas for purchase in the Sculpture Garden. The Garden Bar will sell local gelati and sorbetti, ice cream sandwiches, and cookies, as well as wine, beer, and specialty coffees. Terrace 5, on the fifth floor of the Museum, will offer wines and salumi in an “urban picnic” in addition to the regular ala carte menu presented by Chef Lynn Bound.

On Sundays, July 8 through 29, the Museum’s free Summergarden series once again welcomes the participation of two constituents from Lincoln Center—The Juilliard School and Jazz at Lincoln Center—with concerts in the Sculpture Garden (weather permitting). New Music for New York presents four evenings of adventurous contemporary music, with premieres each night. Members of The New Juilliard Ensemble, under the artistic direction of Joel Sachs, perform on July 8 and 22 and will offer two distinctive programs of contemporary compositions, all of which are enjoying their New York, United States, Western Hemisphere, or world premieres. Jazz at Lincoln Center has selected two leading jazz groups whose concerts on July 15 and 29 emphasize original works, each with one world premiere.
During Summergarden, the Garden Bar will sell gelati and seasonal sorbetti from il laboratorio del gelato, homemade cookies, and Café 2’s signature ice cream sandwich. Wine, champagne, American craft beer, specialty coffees, and bottled water are also available for purchase.

In addition to the Museum’s collection, special exhibitions on view this summer include Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language (May 6–August 27), Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan (July 1– October 1), Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900–2000 (July 29–November 5), and Quay Brothers: On Deciphering the Pharmacist's Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets (August 12, 2012–January 7, 2013).

MoMA SUMMER HOURS:
Mondays:
10:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Tuesdays:
OPEN 10:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. (June 26 through September 25)
Wednesdays: 10:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Thursdays:
10:30 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. (July 5 through August 30)
Fridays:
10:30 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. Target Free Friday Nights begin at 4:00 p.m.*
Saturdays:
10:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Sundays:
10:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
MoMA NIGHTS:
Thursdays, July 5, 12, 19, 26, and August 2, 9, 16, 23, 30

Live music set at 6:30 p.m. , The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden (weather permitting) Regular admission applies. In the event of rain, the Sculpture Garden will close, and music will take place indoors. Sculpture Garden and indoor seating are limited and on a first-come, first- served basis.

SUMMERGARDEN:
July 8—Juilliard concert 1 – New Music for Large Ensembles
July 15 —Jazz at Lincoln Center concert 1 - Yosvany Terry Quintet
July 22 —Juilliard concert 2 – New Music for String Quartet
July 29 —Jazz at Lincoln Center concert 2 - Vijay Iyer Trio
8:00 p.m., The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden (weather permitting)

Summergarden is free and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden may close if attendance reaches maximum capacity. Entrance to Summergarden is through the Sculpture Garden gate on West 54 Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues. The Sculpture Garden opens at 7:00 p.m., and concerts start at 8:00 p.m. and run approximately one hour to 90 minutes. The Sculpture Garden closes at 10:00 p.m. In the event of rain, concerts will be held in The Agnes Gund Garden Lobby, and the Museum’s 54 Street entrance will open at 7:30 p.m. The exhibition galleries are closed during Summergarden. Major annual support for Summergarden is provided by The Ethel P. Shein Fund for Music at MoMA, which is generously funded by Agnes Gund. Additional support is provided by The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Paul D. Shein, Myrna and Freddie Gershon, and Elizabeth Pozen.

Press Contact: Kim Donica, 212-708-9752 or kim_donica@moma.org

The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden - The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street, New York, NY 10019, (212) 708-9400
Hours: Wednesday through Monday, 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Friday, 10:30 a.m.–8:00 p.m. Closed Tuesday
Summer Hours June 26—September 25: Monday through Thursday, 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
Friday, 10:30 a.m.-8:00 p.m.
Museum Admission: $25 adults; $18 seniors, 65 years and over with I.D.; $14 full-time students with current I.D. Free, members and children 16 and under. (Includes admittance to Museum galleries and film programs). Target Free Friday Nights 4:00–8:00 p.m.
Film Admission: $12 adults; $8 seniors, 65 years and over with I.D. $10 full-time students with current I.D. (For admittance to film programs only)

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Image: Alighiero Boetti (Italian, 1940-1994). Gemelli (Twins). 1968. Photomontage 5 7/8 x 3 15/16" (15 x 10 cm). Collection Annemarie Sauzeau, Paris. © 2012 Estate of Alighiero Boetti / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE, Rome.

Press Contact:
Paul Jackson, (212) 708-9593, paul_jackson@moma.org
Margaret Doyle, (212) 408-6400, margaret_doyle@moma.org

Press Preview: Tuesday, June 26, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street, New York, NY 10019
Hours: Wednesday through Monday, 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Friday, 10:30 a.m.–8:00 p.m. Closed Tuesday
Admission: $25 adults; $18 seniors, 65 years and over with I.D.; $14 full-time students with current I.D. Free, members and children 16 and under.

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