Botero's Women

"When they told me that the case for the work would incorporate a slight volume, I thought it would be impossible to do. But when I saw it, I was surprised that the reproduction could be so perfect, so faithful to my original, and at the same time that it had that delicate volume effect."

Fernando Botero

Fernando Botero

Botero created a style of his own that distinguished him and made him stand out from the other artists of his generation. It was a style that became known as “Boterism”, in which volume was the central feature of his paintings, drawings, and sculptures.

Still today, Fernando Botero continues to delight us with his voluminous, sensual figures, with his paintings that are critical and social in nature, and with countless projects that have turned him into one of the most-admired, best-known contemporary artists in the international artistic sphere.

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Artika® in partnership with Eclectarte® pays homage to him with Botero’s Women, an artist’s book dedicated to one of the author’s most recurring themes: the female figure. A unique edition numbered and limited to 2,998 copies, created in collaboration with Botero himself.

The work is presented in a case sculpture, designed with a slight relief in honor of his characteristic style, and which reproduces a detail from the painting Head (2006). The two volumes that it houses inside, when joined, configure the same image.

The Art Book includes 45 plates with drawings of multiple suggestive, sensual and expressive female figures, accompanied by quotes from stories by Botero himself. And the Book of Studies, which delves into the work of the master, one comes to understand the scope of a universal painter at the hands of the professor of Art History Lourdes Cirlot.

7.000,00 €

A CLOSER LOOK

PRODUCTION PROCESS

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For the printing of the drawings, two types of paper are used: one of watercolor and another handmade, which reproduces the characteristics of the amate paper used by the artist.

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The 45 sheets have been glued using three glue points. On the back of each sheet appears the numbering and the artist’s stamp.

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In the drawings of this edition you can appreciate the fidelity with respect to the originals, mainly in the techniques used by Botero such as watercolor or pencil.

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Both the pages of the art book and those of the Study book are joined by manual and artisanal sewing with cotton thread.

5.
Both books are bound by hand with covers printed on canvas.

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The covers of the art book are made up of magnetic flaps that give this volume an impeccable finish.

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Bound simultaneously, the two united books of Botero’s Women form a detail of the image of the painting Head (2006).

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The sculpture-case, made of polyurethane, a type of high-density resin, is created from an aluminum mold.

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Once the piece is demolded, the craftsman corrects possible impurities and imperfections by grinding and caulking.

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The two parts of the case are lacquered in white, and later, in green, except for the face imitating the painting painted by Botero in 2006.

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The color is then applied to the face with digital printing. Two prints are made to bring out the color and add details.

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Finally, the “Botero” signature is silkscreened by hand in white ink. In addition, the Notarial Certificate included in the art book is numbered by hand.

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Botero's Women

Fernando Botero

7.000,00 €

A CLOSER LOOK

PRODUCTION PROCESS

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