Botero. 60 Years of Painting at CentroCentro

The exhibition, produced by Arthemisia in collaboration with the Madrid City Council, covers six of the more than seven decades of the career of Colombian artist Fernando Botero (Medellín, 1932). Curated by Cristina Carrillo de Albornoz in collaboration with Lina Botero, the exhibition comprises a selection of 67 exceptional, large-format works on loan from several private collections. Botero. 60 Years of Painting, the largest to date in Spain, will be a unique occasion because the selection, invites us to contemplate his work through his eyes, as if it were an “imaginary” Botero Museum.
The exhibition is divided into seven sections corresponding to the most characteristic themes of his work, which connect to his fascination for and constant study of the classic themes of art history. Latin America, the central theme of his career, the Versions he creates from masterpieces of art history, his Still Lifes, one of his favorite pictorial genres, Religion, the Bullfight, the Circus, three universal themes of painting that he revisits and that attract him primarily because of their pictorial strength and because they offer him infinite challenges and possibilities such as experimenting with technique, composition, sensuality, form, volume and colour. Watercolours on Canvas, the seventh section of the exhibition, will allow us to contemplate his most recent and as yet unseen work.
The exhibition is open until February 7, 2021 at CentroCentro, in Madrid. For more information visit: https://www.centrocentro.org/en/exhibition/botero-60-years-painting