Fernando Botero

FERNANDO BOTERO (Medellín, Colombia, 1932- Monaco, 2023) for ARTIKA.
"Via Crucis".
The art book has been printed on 200 grams Tintoretto Gesso paper and the drawings, which are presented reduced to 75% by express indication of the artist, have been reproduced on 160 grams Conqueror Antique Diamante paper. The cover reproduces a detail of the painting Cerca de la cruz (2010).
Copy 311/2798.
Notarial deed of Mr. Rafael de Córdoba Benedicto, belonging to the illustrious Notarial Association of Catalonia. Barcelona, May 31, 2021 Protocol number 1829.
Measurements. 40 x 40 (book).

This unique edition reproduces the 34 drawings and 27 paintings (61 works in total) that make up the Via Crucis series, in which the master shows his personal interpretation of the Christian Way of the Cross. Artika itself defines the project as follows "In 2012, Fernando Botero donated his Via Crucis series to the Museum of Antioquia, in Medellin. Now, on the occasion of its 90th anniversary, he wanted to turn that masterpiece into an artistic edition that pays homage to the people of Colombia. This is the artist's book that connects the history of art with the memory of the Master."

Fernando Botero is the best known contemporary Colombian artist, author of a totally personal figurative language, marked by exalted volumetry. He made his debut when he was only sixteen years old, and since then he has shown his work all over the world. He is currently represented in the Museum that bears his name in Bogota, as well as in the Metropolitan, the MoMA and the Guggenheim in New York, the Art Collection of the Luis Angel Arango Library in Colombia, the Museum of Modern Art in Vienna, the Kunsthalle and the Staatsgalerie in Munich, the National Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago de Chile, the Museums of Modern Art in Bogota, Tokushima, Hiroshima and the Vatican, the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg and the Scheringa de Spanbroek in Holland, among many other public and private collections around the world. It also has numerous public monuments in cities such as Madrid, Tokyo, Singapore, Paris and New York, among others.