AEB 

Alighiero Boetti made AEB, featuring three adjacent blocks of red, green and blue. The first panel has a column of white letters, with a single comma in the upper portion of each block. Look closely, and you may notice its construction from tiny, rhythmic marks that ripple across the surface, creating a tactile quality, almost like woven fabric. Boetti's formal approach invites a semiotic reading, with the colors potentially signifying primary elements, language broken down to its alphabet, and the comma introducing pauses. Boetti challenges fixed meanings, the repetitive, almost meditative marks could be seen as a deconstruction of language, reducing it to basic components, reflecting the artist's interest in systems. The interplay between color and text creates a visual rhythm, destabilizing any single interpretation. Consider how Boetti uses the formal elements not just aesthetically but to question the structures of language and knowledge itself. Boetti’s work remains an invitation to reconsider how we assign meaning, and how we perceive the world around us.