I mille fiumi più lunghi del mondo 1983

I mille fiumi più lunghi del mondo 1983
Letterpress print on paper.
31.89 x 54.33 in.
Signed and numbered 50/99 lower center recto.
Torino, Gallery Franz Paludetto / LP 220, 16 83.

In 1977 Boetti published the volume 'Classifying, the thousand longest rivers in the world' in which he collected the fruits of the research carried out from 1970 to 1973 together with Annemarie Sauzeau to classify the 1000 longest rivers in the world. Stimulated by the memory of the synoptic tables for school use and by Albert Hochheimer's 'The novel of the great rivers' published in Italy in 1956, Boetti began an enormous documentary work on an international scale involving geographical institutes, governments, universities, private study centers and scholars, documenting inconsistencies and measurement errors where one was under the illusion of finding certainties. In 1975, projects were also born for the creation of two large monochrome tapestries entitled 'The thousand longest rivers in the world', in which the names of the rivers appear written seamlessly imitating the dotted characters of electronic calculators, similar to the Braille writing. The two tapestries, one white and the other green, will be made in 1979. On the occasion of the exhibition in Turin organized by the Franz Paludetto Gallery, the green tapestry has been translated into a letterpress print edition of 99 signed exemplars, and in a series of posters printed in offset used to advertise the exhibition, not numbered.