Alighiero Boetti

SMAC Venice presents Alighiero Boetti, a major exhibition dedicated to the Italian post-war artist Alighiero Boetti (Turin, 1940 – Rome, 1994). Curated by Elena Geuna and supported by Ben Brown Fine Arts, the exhibition brings together approximately one hundred works across eight galleries, offering an extensive survey of Boetti’s practice. Spanning more than twenty-five years, from the late 1960s to the early 1990s, it traces the full arc of his artistic trajectory and highlights the breadth and complexity of his work.

Conceived as a constellation that invites viewers to inhabit the space between idea and form, order and disorder, the exhibition reflects Boetti’s sustained interest in duality, systems and process. From early works rooted in simple materials and elementary structures, in dialogue with the propositions of Arte Povera, to later collaborative and conceptually layered projects, the presentation foregrounds the internal coherence of a practice that repeatedly tests its own premises while embracing chance, repetition and shared authorship as generative forces.