From October 30, 2024, to February 15, 2025, The Accademia Nazionale di San Luca presents the exhibition Alighiero e Boetti. Doubling and Halving dedicated to one of the artists most visionary and influential of the 20th century, curated by Marco Tirelli and conceived together with Caterina Boetti, president of the Fondazione Alighiero e Boetti.

In commemoration of the thirtieth anniversary of the passing of Alighiero Boetti (Turin, 1940 – Rome, 1994), in the Salone d’Onore, in the Sala bianca, and in the Borrominian portico of Palazzo Carpegna, a selected nucleus of works will be exhibited around the themes of duality and proliferation from the one to the many, characteristic of the artist's research.

The exhibition offers an unusual journey through his work, in its most rigorous, conceptual, and imaginative aspects.

The Salone d’Onore, reconfigured for the occasion by an important exhibition structure, will host the Opera postale (De bouche à oreille), a colossal work created in 1992-93, a year before the artist's death. Rarely exhibited, the work represents a summa of his previous work that "rebirths" the highest passages of his research. Realized in collaboration with the French Post, Le Magasin – Centre National d’Art Contemporain in Grenoble, and the Musée de la Poste, the composition is articulated in 11 series, each consisting of two elements: the envelopes and the drawings (506 stamped and postmarked envelopes and 506 mixed media drawings).

In the Sala bianca (opposite the Salone d’Onore), the famous Gemelli (1968), a photographic photomontage executed by Mario Ponsetti on the artist's instructions; Storia naturale della moltiplicazione (1974-1975), a large polyptych consisting of 11 squared papers; Io che prendo il sole a Torino il 19 gennaio 1969 (1992), an installation in which the artist self-represents with a cabbage butterfly, alluding to the self that transcends bodily limits.

In the porticato borrominiano the visitor will be greeted by the bronze Autoritratto