Le infinite possibilità di esistere. 1988.
Embroidery on canvas, mounted on panel.
Signed, dated and inscribed "Peshawar" on the reverse. 26.5 x 27.7 cm (10.4 x 10.9 in).

• Alighiero e Boetti is one of the most important Italian artists of the 20th century and shaped the Arte Povera movement.
• Conceptual and sensual at the same time, the artist deals with existence, chance and probability in a complex way.
• In 1971 the artist went on a trip to Afghanistan, and found local textile folk art as an essential source of inspiration
• Works he made in Afghanistan and Pakistan are among the most characteristic ones in his creation.
• In 1972 Alighiero e Boetti was invited to the documenta 5 curated by Harald Szeemann - the most seminal of all documenta exhibitions.

With a photo expertise from the Archivio Alighiero Boetti, Rome, where the work is registered under the number 88/RL/106.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Kaess-Weiss, Stuttgart (with a gallery label on the reverse).
Private collection Hesse.