Fernando Botero "Sculpture"

Marlborough (Midtown)

poster for Fernando Botero "Sculpture"

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Botero’s monumental sculptures are well known the world over. They have been shown in critically acclaimed exhibitions, much loved by the public, in such capital cities as Paris, Washington D.C., Madrid, Berlin, Monaco, Tokyo, and also in New York. The summer of 1999 marked an unprecedented event when the City of Florence invited Botero to exhibit his monumental sculptures in the famous Piazza della Signoria next to the Uffizi Gallery. This was the first time that a contemporary artist had been offered this extraordinary site to exhibit work, and the great honor was not lost on Botero. Just as admired and loved as his monumental works, Botero’s more intimate sculptures are perhaps less well known by the public because shows of them have been seen less often. Marlborough’s exhibition will offer the rare opportunity to view a number of superb examples of Botero’s art in sculpture on a smaller scale.
The exhibition will consist of nineteen sculptures. While there is a sculptural piece representing every year from 2005 to 2011, over half the works come from the years 2009 to 2011. The show will also include a coveted tour de force work from 2001 of Dancers. The sculptures range in size from about 12” in height to 50” and portray quintessential subjects associated with the master’s oeuvre. There will be two sculptural versions of ballerinas, several classical examples of reclining and seated nudes in varied positions, and two versions of the artist’s unique take on male and female riders on a horse. Perhaps the most cherished of Botero’s subjects are of animals and Marlborough’s show will have three particularly fine examples: Bird from 2011, Cat, and Horse with Bridle, both from 2009. The show will also highlight two magnificent sculptures in white marble: a reclining nude, the embodiment of calm and tranquility, lying face up with her head resting on a pillow, and one of Botero’s most cherished images, Lovers, 2010, where the beloved woman sits firmly on the seated man’s knee, her right leg linked over his left leg in an embrace of eternal happiness. In these two outstanding sculptures the manifest purity of the white marble enhances the subjects’ nobility and power.

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from October 24, 2012 to December 01, 2012

Artist(s)

Fernando Botero

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