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Book Fernando Botero: Impossible Collection

Book Fernando Botero: Impossible Collection

Assouline

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Book Fernando Botero: Impossible Collection by Assouline

Description

Fernando Botero pursued excellence in art for sixty-five turbulent years, mastering numerous techniques and creating a formidable body of work of over 3,000 paintings, over 200 sculptures, and at least 12,000 drawings. Few artists have been able to create a world as distinctive as Botero's, instantly recognizable worldwide by the balance between inventive volumetric forms and a magnificent sense of color: meticulous compositions painted with brushstrokes almost invisible, an expression of sumptuousness and sensuality radiating a feeling of unity. Botero's art communicates monumentality and his sculpture accentuates it.


Having enjoyed an exceptional position as one of the most successful contemporary artists, Fernando Botero nevertheless continued to explore with the same "fighting" attitude of his beginnings. He wanted to learn a little more day by day because, for him, an artist was never “complete”, and the process of knowledge had no end. “You can never claim to know how to paint,” he said. “It is important to never lose your strong inner feeling or your determination to develop your personal style as an artist. »


This spectacular hand-bound Ultimate Collection volume, presented in a linen clamshell case, includes previously unpublished works and has been curated in collaboration with the renowned artist himself among Botero's most important works from each period of his unique work.

White gloves and an iconic canvas tote bag are included with every purchase of Assouline's ultimate collection.

Details

  • 152 pages
  • 100 illustrations
  • In English language
  • Released in November 2016
  • L 39 x W 47 x D 8 cm
  • Limited edition hand-bound in a linen slipcase
  • ISBN: 9781614284734
  • 9.0 kg

Author

Cristina Carrillo de Albornoz, a former diplomat at the United Nations, is an independent art curator for museums around the world. As an art critic and author, she has contributed to publications such as Spanish, Italian, German and Mexican Vogue; The Art Newspaper and The Observer in the United Kingdom; Beaux Arts and L’Œil in France; El País and AD in Spain; and La Repubblica in Italy. She has written twelve books, including Balthus, Santiago Calatrava, Ai Weiwei and Fernando Botero and Jorge Luis Borges & María Kodama: The Infinite Encounter for Assouline. She has organized exhibitions at major institutions around the world on Rubens, Balthus, Fernando Botero, Santiago Calatrava, Manolo Blahnik, Picasso and 2000 Nobel Prize winner Gao Xingjian. Over the years, she has worked with Arthemisia, the leading company in Italy in the organization of art exhibitions, as well as with the photographic archive management company Iconic Images. His work includes partnerships with galleries such as Marlborough in New York and White Cube in London and collaborations with numerous artists, including Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Ai Weiwei, Harland Miller, Tadao Ando and Zaha Hadid.

Craftsmanship

Assouline's ultimate collection is a tribute to the art of luxury bookmaking. Hand-bound using traditional techniques, with hand-stamped color plates on artist-quality paper, each page of this limited edition series bears the unique imprint of the artisan. Covering a range of subjects from jewelry and fashion, to fine art and “impossible collections,” the ultimate collection curates culture from around the world and across the ages. Nestled in linen clamshell boxes, these books attract collectors, lovers of the printed page, and those who devour the culture of our time. Signifying a new level of sophistication for true connoisseurs, these unique books are works of art in their own right.

Fernando Botero Impossible Collection

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