Exposition - Marcelo Bottaro

Marcelo Bottaro has been drawing, painting, sculpting and modeling for forty years, mainly in Europe and Latin America.
His most notable works are the Viaje series (2000 to 2003), Conquista y Colonia exhibited at the Victoriano Museum in Rome in 2003 and Epica, Mito y Estetica Nuestramericana, 12 large format paintings in the Gallery of Arte Nacional de Caracas from 2012 to 2013.
Marcelo Bottaro invests himself in research, paints and sells his works in his own gallery-studio in Saint-Cirq-Lapopie (Lot). In particular, from 2022, he will produce works for the “Human Geography of Pangea” project and from 2023, work on the Iberica Transcontinental series. Still in this environment marked by cave art – the inspiring geology of Quercy, from 2018, he concretized his approach in the artistic project “Prehistory and Future”. In 2020, he will give the complete exhibition of the series at the Rignault Museum and the Maison André Breton in Saint-Cirq-Lapopie.

The opening of the exhibition will take place on Tuesday November 12 at 6 p.m., at Eurythmie.

Adopted and raised by a French West Indian doctor, Marcelo Bottaro spent part of his childhood, then his adolescence among the Indians of the Amazonian forest: he inherited slices of life with them, a rich and personal relationship with life, nature, the human condition.
Through the profusion and generosity of his compositions, the brilliance and spontaneity of his palette, gratitude is central to his approach. Even when he paints tragedy, war, pain, death, it is to bring out hope, the desire to live, to celebrate. He does it with the luxury of poverty, using a little coal, coffee, local clay to draw and paint on modest rag papers, as if to go more quickly to truth and nature.

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