Fernando Botero
The Street, 2013
oil on canvas, 68 x 71 cm. / 26 ¾ x 28 in.
Fernando Botero: It Is All About Volume Galerie Gmurzynska presents ‘It Is All About Volume’, a major exhibition of new paintings and sculpture by the internationally renowned modern master, Fernando Botero. Opening: September 5th, 2013]]>
Source: Galerie Gmurzynska
The show will be installed throughout three galeries, including Gmurzynska’s location in famed Paradeplatz in Zürich, Galerie Gmurzynska Zug, as well as a new galerie in Zug inaugurated by the Botero exhibition.
Entitled “It Is All About Volume”, the exhibition is comprised of over 20 new paintings and sculptures that collectively revisit the most iconic subjects of the artist’s six-decade career. Included are quintessential examples of Botero’s bullfighters, circus performers, imbibers, musicians, reclining couples and society women that have characterized his oeuvre since the early 1950s. While the figures represent a sweeping sample of humanity, they are nonetheless instantly recognizable as characters of Botero’s.
The artist’s commitment to innovatively representing volume has been the primary impetus in his paintings, sculpture and works on paper since his first drawings of bullfighters as a teenager. This recent body of work reexamines the myriad of figures with which Botero has employed this formal device in creating an iconographic vocabulary that could not possibly be mistaken for that of another artist.
Universally acknowledged as one of the canonical international artists of his generation, Fernando Botero has had over 200 solo exhibitions on five continents. His work is included in countless museum collections around the world, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; and The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, among many others.
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