1989
unspecified
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Untitled is a 1989 unspecified by Alighiero Boetti, depicting Flag, held at Museum of Modern Art.
You see a huge rectangle of fabric covered in tiny, colorful stitches that spell out the names of every country in the world. Boetti didn’t sew it himself. He sent the design to Afghan embroiderers, who worked for months with bright threads. The borders shift—some countries appear, others vanish—because the map was made in 1989, right as the Cold War ended and borders were redrawn. To see how fabric can tell a story, look up *The Museum of Modern Art*.
Alighiero Fabrizio Boetti, known as Alighiero e Boetti (16 December 1940 – 24 April 1994) was an Italian painter, sculptor and conceptual artist, considered to be a member of the art movement Arte Povera.
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