Postal Dossier (Dossier postale)
Alighiero Boetti
Italian, 1940–1994
1969-70
A paperboard folder containing photocopies in which Boetti makes the postal envelope and a clipped Touring Club map into the artwork’s content, documenting a simple journey as an administrative record.
The sober gray card, cut-away tabs and blue type look like a bureaucratic file—only to reveal a tiny, schematic rectangle map with four place-names and stamped dates, a spare, procedural elegance.
An example of Boetti’s conceptual turn that treated mail, photocopying, and bureaucratic forms as artistic media, helping to broaden art into networks, process, and archived documentation.
Medium
Paperboard folder containing photocopies
Dimensions
folder: 13 3/4 x 9 13/16" (35 x 25 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Sperone Westwater
Accession
1268.2012.49
Palette
Art Terms
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