ALIGHIERO BOETTI (TURIN 1940 - ROME 1994) "Insecure Nonchalant" 1975-1976 Complete portfolio of 81 sheets each 55x45 cm, in original red canvas container 56x48.5x3.2 cm The 81 sheets include eighty sheets with images, and a unique piece (mixed media, prints, collages, photographs, drawings, some handmade by the artist, varying from one exemplary to another) and a colophon Signed and numbered 1 on sheet n. 81, executed in 1975, edition of 41+IV copies, 2R Rinaldo Rossi, Genoa Provenance Molino Collection, Milan Private collection, Milan Exhibitions "Alighiero Boetti Saman Gallery, Genoa, 23 October 1975 "Alighiero Boetti" Studio Marconi, Milan, March 1976 "Alighiero Boetti" D'Alessandro-Ferranti Gallery, Rome, 19 May - 9 June 1976 ""Alighiero Boetti"" Annemarie Verna, Zurich, 25 February - 15 March 1977 "Alighiero Boetti" Galleria dell'Ariete, Milan, 31 March 1977 Kunsthalle, Wilhelmshaven, 16 October - 21 November 1982, p. 45 "Alighiero Boetti" Loggetta Lombardesca, Ravenna, 15 December 1984 - 24 February 1985 "Alighiero Boetti. Insecuro Noncurante" Le Nouveau Musée, Villeurbanne, 7 February - 20 April 1986; Villa Arson, Nice, 30 April - 30 June 1986; Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 30 November 1986 - 11 January 1987, p. 17, 90 Le Magasin, Grenoble, 8 November 1986 - 11 January 1987 Locus Solus A.C., Genoa, 19 February 1987 Musée Savoisien, Chambéry, 7 March - 11 March 1987 Villa du Parc, Annemasse, 22 January - 5 March 1988 Galerie L'Encan, Lou-vain-la-Neuve, 30 November - 22 December 1988 "Alighiero Boetti Museo Casabianca, Malo, 9 December 1990 - 13 January 1991 Kunstlerhaus/Neue Galerie/Stadtmuseum, Graz, 3 October - 8 November 1992 Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice, 23 March - 16 June 1996, p. 35 "Alighiero Boetti" Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, 10 May - 1 September 1996, pp. 196, 242 ill. Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen, 22 June - 2 September 1997, pp. 216-217 Musée de Valence, Valence, 14 May - 30 August 1998, p.89 "Alighiero Boetti" Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 14 September - 7 November 1999, p.77 "Alighiero Boetti" Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, Lyon, 5 January - 17 February 2000 "Alighiero Boetti" La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, 10 June - 4 November 2001 "Alighiero Boetti" 38 Langham Street, London, 19 September - 26 October 2002 Institut d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne, 19 June - 17 August 2003 "Alighiero Boetti" FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, 21 June - 27 September 2003, p.68 "Alighiero Boetti" Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, 6 April - 18 July 2004, pp. 119-121, 233 "Alighiero Boetti - Insicuro Noncurante" Galerie Monika Sprüth Magers, Cologne, 2 November 2005 - 5 January 2006 "Alighiero Boetti" Museum Ritter Sammlung Marli Hoppe-Ritter, Waldenbuch, 26 October 2008 - 19 April 2009 "Alighiero Boetti" MADRE Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples, 22 February - 11 May 2009, p.121 "Alighiero Boetti - Insicuro Noncurante" Galerie Monika Sprüth Magers, Berlin, 30 January - 1 April 2010 "Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan" Tate Modern, London, 28 February - 27 May 2012; MOMA, New York, 1 July - 1 October 2012 "Alighiero Boetti - Insecure Noncurious" Ierimonti Gallery, New York, 14 April - 5 June 2015 "Alighiero Boetti - Insecure Noncurious" Tate Modern permanent collection, London (other exemplaries illustrated) Literature T. Trini "Alighiero and Boetti, Insecure Nonconcursive because Leonardesque" Milan, Data, 1975 A. Bonito Oliva "Studio International" January - February 1976 Levi, Milan 1985, pp. 55, 58, 63 Levi, Di Pierantonio, Cherubini, Guglielmino, Buenos Aires 2004, pp. 30, 59 Jean-Christophe Ammann, Alighiero Boetti Catalogo generale, Milan, 2012, vol. II, p. 202, no. 748 (other exemplaries illustrated)