This first volume about Alighiero Boetti analyses his work between 1962 and 1971. The generative principles which make his soul vibrate, like order and chaos, randomness and necessity, seeking and finding, the equal and the different, are developed in his work through materials and procedures which are simple but of extraordinary esthetic clarity . In the ethics of his artistic output Boetti infringes the rules of art, which put artist and creator on the same level. While he is responsible for the original idea behind the work, he actually leaves the job of creating it - as in the case of his famous Maps - to an expert. A total of four volumes will cover his entire output. The second one will cover the period 1972-1978, and two more volumes will cover his output in 1979-1985 and 1986-1994.