Fernando Botero on display in Bologna with an exhibition of 50 works, including some previously unseen

From October 12, 2019 to January 12, 2020, Palazzo Pallavicini in Bologna is hosting an exhibition dedicated to Colombian artist Fernando Botero (Medellín, 1932). Titled simply Botero, the exhibition, curated by Francesca Bogliolo in collaboration with the artist himself, is promoted by Gruppo Pallavicini s.r.l. and consists of a nucleus of fifty works including some previously unpublished ones. In addition to the paintings, there are also drawings and color watercolors on canvas. Divided into seven sections, the exhibition presents themes dear to the artist and recounts his world of abundant volumes and enveloping colors.

Among the selected subjects appear characters related to bullfighting and the circus, still lifes, nudes, religious personalities, and individuals caught in their everyday life: the exhibition was imagined to account for Botero’s visual research, aimed at the affirmation of his characteristic language. The exhibition layout was designed with theAccademia di Belle Arti di Bologna and carried out in collaboration with the Biennium Specializing in Scenography and Exhibit and Museum Spaces set-up thanks to Professor Enrico Aceti, Professor Rosanna Fioravanti, Professor Michele Chiari and Dr. Erasmo Masetti together with students Alessandro Barbera, Larissa Candido Bergamaschi, Cecilia Giovine, Ester Grigoli, Sarah Menichini, Bianca Piacentini, Rossella Pisani, Elena Romagnani and Tatiana Sànchez Sandoval.

The exhibition opens Thursday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. (box office closes one hour earlier). Special openings (also 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.): November 1 and 2, 2019, December 8, 23, 26, and 30, 2019, and January 1, 6, 7, and 8, 2020. December 31 special opening from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closures on October 17 and 18, 2019, and December 24 and 25, 2019. Tickets: full 13 euros, reduced 11 euros (ages 6 to 18 and under, over 65 with ID, students up to 26 and under with ID, military with ID, tour guides with ID, practicing journalists and publicists with ID who are regularly registered with theOrder, accompanying disabled people, ICOM members with card), reduced groups of at least 10 people 10 euros, school groups 5 euros, Bologna Welcome, Bologna Card Musei and Thursday University 9 euros, free for children under 6 and disabled people.

Image: Fernando Botero, Reclined man (2002; 69x103 cm; Private collection of the artist)

Fernando Botero on display in Bologna with an exhibition of 50 works, including some previously unseen

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