Fernando Botero: Works on Paper
Exclusive Showing of Works by Latin America's Most Famous Living Artist
November 14, 2004 through February 13, 2005

This original exhibition marks the first time anywhere in the world that Fernando Botero's personal collection of his works--more than 70 pieces in all--is on public exhibition. We are extremely proud to have been chosen by Botero as the venue for this significant exhibition of personal works by an artist whom many have ranked with Kahlo and Rivera as the most famed and important of Latin masters.

Botero was born in Colombia and has resided most recently in New York and Paris. He achieved renown beginning in the 1960s for his figural portrayals that explore the human condition through themes spanning politics, history, romance and the family. The roundness and volume of Botero's figures derive from his studies of how the palpability of flesh and figure were first explored by Giotto, Mantegna, Rubens and others. His commitment was and is to represent the figure and the human condition--Woman: The Eternal Female and Man: The Great Male.

The body of work on display at NCMA in Fernando Botero: Works on Paper conveys a panorama of Botero's interests through the intimate media of pencil, charcoal, watercolor and sanguine. Together, these works express a unique vision, that of Fernando Botero.

Fernando Botero: Works on Paper is sponsored by Fortunoff with addtional support from Marlborough Gallery, New York; Bobbi and Mel Weiss, Utopia Home Care, Inc., and Astoria Federal Savings.

SECOND FLOOR GALLERIES
Latin Visions: A Collector's Insights
November 14 through February 13

NCMA now manages an important private collection of 20th-Century Latin Art. These holdings are so large that its many superb works will have to be featured over a period of time. In Latin Visions: A Collector's Insights, the first of these exhibitions based on the collection, we will begin to explore the depth and richness of the collection and of the themes and issues to be found in contemporary Latin art. Among the many mid-century to current artists are the Surrealist masters Lam and Matta and many contemporary trendsetters, among them Colunga, Azceta, Varejao, Muniz and others.

IN THE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY
Young Visionaries
November 14 through February 13

International artists represented several distinctive cultures, among them Enrique Martinez Celaya of Cuba and Wangeechi Mutu of Nairobi, will be represented in this original show curated by Contemporary Collectors Circle members, Elaine Berger and Andrea Fortunoff, in collaboration with Franklin Hill Perrell.