| The Baroque World of Fernando Botero at the CS FAC |
| Written by Ken Hamel | |||
| Posted: July 01, 2009 | |||
The Baroque World of Fernando BoteroColorado Springs Fine Arts CenterMay 30 - August 16, 2009 Fernando Botero - Smoking Woman (1987) At the risk of disparaging the hippie art poster exhibit at the DAM, the Colorado Springs FAC has without doubt upped the ante on Colorado's summer scene and mounted a notable exhibit by Colombian artist Fernando Botero that is ambitious (the large bronze sculptures must weigh in at several tons) and complete, covering the artist's work from the late 1950s up to the 21st Century in a variety of media including pencil/pastel, marble, bronze and large scale oil on canvas. The exhibit features the artist's signature portraits distorting his subjects into massive walls of flesh along with a variety of "day-in-the-life" vignettes, some of which are rather innocently violent, all of which flirt with an air of mystery; even the seemingly benign still lifes betray hidden intrigue (for example the 1970 "Pineapples.") On display until Sunday August 16. - KLH Click here for some pictures from the exhibit... Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center 30 West Dale Street Colorado Springs, CO 80903 719.634.5583 http://www.csfineartscenter.org
photos by Ken Hamel/DenverArts.org
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