Alighiero Boetti

Alighiero Fabrizio Boetti, known as Alighiero e Boetti (16 December 1940 – 24 April 1994) was an Italian conceptual artist, considered to be a member of the art movement Arte Povera. == Background == Boetti is most famous for a series of embroidered maps of the world, Mappa, created between 1971 and his premature death in 1994. Boetti's work was typified by his notion of 'twinning', leading him to add 'e' (and) between his names, 'stimulating a dialectic exchange between the…