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Giuseppe Botti captures the spirit
of the Raging Bull
experienced when contemplating nature, because from
a certain point onwards – perhaps from Giorgione,
perhaps from Guercino, certainly from the Romantic
painters (Turner, Constable, Corot, Friedrich) – the
vision of a landscape becomes absolute, no longer
genre painting: it expresses the way that Man relates
to God as present in Nature”. So wrote Italian art critic
Vittorio Sgarbi for the inauguration of Botti’s exhibition
“Omaggio alla Natura” (Tribute to Nature) in Modena
in 2003.
“Giuseppe Botti is undoubtedly an artist who feels
nature, Grand Nature, in the literal sense of the
term. Botti has chosen a field classified as ‘genre
painting’. This does not necessarily mean decorative
painting, aspiring to convey the beauty and the emotion
The artist from Emilia Romagna (born in Mirandola in
1953 and resident in Sassuolo - www.giuseppebotti.it)
has won notable critical and public praise not only in
Italy but also the United States (following two acclaimed
exhibitions in Miami and Chicago, he exhibited several
times at New York’s Agora Gallery on Broadway). Botti’s
paintings can today be seen in numerous public and
private collections from Rome to Los Angeles, where
they are particularly admired for the overwhelming
power of their light and colour, “competing with nature”
as Leonardo da Vinci insisted all true works of art should.
However the race spirit is also in the artwork that
the artist donated to the Tonino Lamborghini Group
Paintings Collection. In the work christened “Bull
forever” the fervent clouds and air vortex, that since
several years has characterized Botti’s art, is here
blown by a bull, symbol of the company as well as of
the boost versus the victory that moves the race world.
Anna Spadafora
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