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1940
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born in Turin
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1962-64
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lives in Paris
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Around 1965
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does his first pen and ink drawings as an autodidact
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1967
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produces the piece Manifesto, a poster listing the names of artists that make up Boetti’s creative background
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1967
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first solo exhibition in Galleria Christian Stein, Turin
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1968
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creates the photomontage Gemelli (Twins), a double-portrait of Boetti that is published as a postcard
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1969
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first works with postage stamps (francobolli)
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1970
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first ballpoint pen drawings (lavoro biri)
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1971-79
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numerous trips to Afghanistan; together with friends he opens the ONE HOTEL in Kabul; his first embroidered pictures are done by Afghani craftswomen
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1971
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first monumental version of an embroidered map of the world (Mappa)
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1971-78
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together with Annemarie Sauzeau, Boetti works on the large embroidered I mille fiumi piu lunghi del mondo; parallel of this he creates a 1000-page book of the same name
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1972
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moves from Turin to Rome; first small embroidered text pictures (arazzi piccoli)
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1975
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first small embroidered Tutto piece
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1979
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travels to Pakistan
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1980s
1990/2001
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participates on several occasions at the Venice Biennale
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Since 1987
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collaboration with his Iranian assistant Mahshid Mussari
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1993
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commissions his last large Tutto work in Afghanistan
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1994
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dies after a long and troubled illness in Rome
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