In 1967, the Italian artist Alighiero Boetti hung a section of the fabric on in a gallery under the title "Mimetico" (camouflage) as a challenge to the abstract tachist tradition of painting large, flat sections of colour.
The Italian artist Alighiero Boetti hung a section of the fabric on in a gallery under the title "Mimetico" (camouflage) as a challenge to the abstract tachist tradition of painting large, flat sections of colour. This was in 1967.