Boetti by Afghan People Signing at Lost & Found
December 2nd, 2011
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Boetti by Afghan People Book Signing at SMMoA
November 30th, 2011Join the Santa Monica Museum of Art for the Bergamot Station Arts Center Open House–30 Open Doors–and attend this special book signing. In Boetti by Afghan People: Peshawar, Pakistan, 1990, artist/photographer Randi Malkin Steinberger documents the singular evolution of Alighiero Boetti’s embroidered works from initial concept to final masterpiece. Her photographs trace the journey of Boetti’s cloth drawings from his studio in Rome to the Afghan women’s refugee camps in Pakistan. Through Steinberger’s perceptive eye and illuminating words (as well as those of others) we see and feel the poignancy of the artist and the artisans who together created one of contemporary art’s most exquisite and powerful bodies of work.
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Book signing at The NY Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1
September 15th, 2011Signing in the MoMA PS1 lobby at Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair .
Also, at the fair visit the RAM Publications booth for an up close and personal look at the new release Boetti by Afghan People: Peshawar, Pakistan, 1990, in which American photographer Randi Malkin Steinberger offers an intimate portrait of the production of Italian conceptual artist Alighiero Boetti’s pivotal embroidered works by Afghan refugees in Pakistan. The sixth annual event for artists’ books, contemporary art catalogs and monographs, art periodicals, and artist zines is free and open to the public. The book fair runs from Friday, September 30 – Sunday, October 2. For more information visit www.nyartbookfair.com.
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Book Launch + Reception
September 14th, 2011Gladstone Gallery and RAM Publications & Distribution host the launch and reception for photographer
Randi Malkin Steinberger and her just released book, Boetti by Afghan People: Peshawar, Pakistan, 1990,
at Gladstone Gallery in New York City, where the first ever retrospective dedicated to Alighiero e Boetti’s
Mappa series was exhibited last year.
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Randi Malkin Steinberger photo mural at LACMA
September 2nd, 2011Common Places features three objects from LACMA’s permanent collection, which transform printed works on paper into one-of-a-kind embroideries: a 17th-century valance, a cigarette silks quilt, and a Boetti Mappa, his most iconic and monumental work. The resulting textiles articulate contemporary aspects of global phenomena and suggest that globalization has deep historical roots that extended into the home and every day life. Included in the exhibit will be a mural print of one of Steinberger’s photographs.
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Randi Malkin Steinberger’s photographs at The Fowler Museum at UCLA
September 2nd, 2011The first exhibition to explore the body of work created by Alighiero Boetti in collaboration with Afghan embroiders, will open in February at the Fowler Museum at UCLA. Order and Disorder: Alighiero Boetti by Afghan Women will combine approximately 30 works by Boetti with photographs by Randi Malkin Steinberger showing production in Peshawar and the outlying refugee camp, as well as examples of the traditional styles of embroidery that initially inspired Boetti to make this work when he encountered the embroidery style on the streets of Kabul.
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Book Signing at Pippa Small Jewellery
September 2nd, 2011Photographer Randi Malkin Steinberger signs copies of her newest book, Boetti by Afghan People: Peshawar, Pakistan, 1990, at Pippa Small Jewellery in the Brentwood Country Mart, featuring Pippa Small’s newest jewellery collection made with the Turquoise Mountain Foundation craftspeople in Afghanistan. Steinberger and Small share a passion for celebrating and supporting indigenous crafts. This event will benefit Turquoise Mountain, established in 2006 to regenerate Afghanistan’s historic urban areas and spur the sustainable development of the nation’s craft industry.
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Boetti Retrospective in Madrid
September 2nd, 2011The first large-scale retrospective of Alighiero Boetti’s work outside Italy in over a decade, this exhibition presents the most comprehensive overview of the artist’s career to date. Covering all periods of Boetti’s broad oeuvre–including early sculptural experiments associated with the Arte Povera movement, conceptual and ephemeral projects of the 1970s, and the monumental embroideries and tapestries he fabricated up to his death–this exhibition will travel to the Tate Modern, London, and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, through 2013.