Alighiero Boetti

Dec 16, 1940 - Apr 24, 1994
Alighiero Fabrizio Boetti known as Alighiero e Boetti was an Italian conceptual artist, considered to be a member of the art movement Arte Povera. Boetti is most famous for a series of embroidered maps of the world, Mappa, created between 1971 and his death in 1994. [Wikipedia]