Boetti by Afghan People Book Signing at SMMoA
Join 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.