Fernando Botero @ David Benrimon Fine Art, New York

Fernando Botero 
David Benrimon Fine Art, New York
March 28 - April 23, 2019

David Benrimon Fine Art presents the highly anticipated Fernando Botero solo exhibition in its brand new state of the art gallery in the Fuller Building. This show reinforces David Benrimon’s critically acclaimed thirty-year presence in the Botero market.

This exhibition focuses on masterworks from Fernando Botero’s career and includes a selection of impressive paintings, sculptures and works on paper. “Botero” reflects upon the scale of Fernando Botero’s career while also referencing his unique, recurring subject matter.

In his paintings, Fernando Botero synthesizes his own artistic vision by combining the world of contemporary Colombia with the aesthetics of the Italian masters, thus creating a distinctive world of his own. His imagined universe is peopled with various characters from Medellín from bullfighters and dancers to street musicians and lovers. Concierto Campestre, a gorgeous oil painting from 2017, features a romantic moment between a lounging couple as the gentleman serenades his sophisticated partner. Fernando Botero’s ballerina, a desirable and recurring theme referenced throughout his oeuvre, is also highlighted in the show. This sculpture portrays a rare irony – the rounded stomach and undefined limbs are hardly the first things associated with grace, yet his subject is striking and elegant.

Fernando Botero scoffs at new trends affecting the art world and continues to create his graceful, obese women and men, thereby challenging, if not mocking, popular Western culture. At 86 years old, Fernando Botero remains a living Master and it is David Benrimon Fine Art’s privilege to curate this exhibition.

DAVID BENRIMON FINE ART
41 East 57th Street, New York, NY 10022
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