Alighiero e Boetti
Galleria Lucio Amelio
In the 11 works shown here Alighiero e Boetti once again stages his divided self as the work’s protagonist. This time he has used mirror images of a simplified self-portrait, an emblematic figure of the artist as “artificer” that has appeared in his work since the mid ’70s. The very title of the show, “Tra se e se” (Between self and self), is a reference to Boetti’s two specular images, which close off the upper and lower borders of all 11 of these paper-on-canvas pieces from 1986. The viewpoint is from above, showing the artist’s head in black silhouette and his two outstretched hands holding