Botero - Born in Medellín

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Movie
Original title Botero - Born in Medellín
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2008
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Peter Schamoni
script Peter Schamoni
production Peter Schamoni
for Peter Schamoni Film
music Baden Powell de Aquino
Bernd Steidl
Enigma
Peter Finger
camera Ernst Hirsch
Konrad Hirsch
cut Carsten Dillhöfer

Botero - Born in Medellín is a German documentary directed by Peter Schamoni from 2008 .

action

Fernando Botero , a Colombian artist, visits various places where his sculptures are displayed for exhibitions, including Paris (1992), New York City (1993) and Chicago (1994). No matter where his sculptures are publicly exhibited - be it Berlin, Milan or Tokyo - he can always determine the location and he always takes care of the installation.

Botero talks about his works of art. When drawing a mandolin , he once reduced the hole in the instrument body to its minimal size. This made the instrument look more monumental and brought him to his painting style. What is important to him is the volume of what he wants to feel. His portrayed people and animals, but also simple objects, are always rounded. In addition, he shows no respect for proportions and emphasizes aspects through size or tiny.

Fernando Botero was born in Medellín . His father worked as a mounted salesman and died when Botero was four years old. Nevertheless, he drew his father several times. At the age of 18 Botero discovered the work of the painter Paul Gauguin for himself and moved to the Caribbean coast for several months, where he drew in the Gauguin style. With the prize money from a competition he won, he went to Madrid . Among other things, he copied classics of painting in his own way, including the Mona Lisa and works by Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez , especially Las Meninas . He moved to New York City, where he lived for nine years, but had no success due to the dominant abstract art. He only made his breakthrough in Germany. His first exhibition took place in Munich .

It is important to Botero that he does not create realistic art despite his representational style of representation. There is reality, which is why it does not have to be represented. For him it is essential to create his own artistic parallel world. Religious dignitaries and bullfighters are common in his work. Both groups are the only ones for him who still dress imaginatively in the present. Botero finds places of irrationality in brothel scenes. In all representation, however, the color determines the composition of the picture for him. He does not sell all works. He donated depictions of the guerrilla war, kidnappings and massacres in Colombia to the Museo Nacional de Colombia because he did not want to make money out of the suffering of the people. He also wanted to donate the torture in Abu Ghuraib prison , which he processed in several dozen pictures.

Botero is venerated like a national saint, especially in his birthplace, Medellín. In order to be able to set up 25 sculptures he donated in the city, an entire block of houses was demolished. Numerous sculptures have been exhibited in the town hall, the Museo de Antioquia shows Botero's works and the Botero café is decorated with his pictures. Even an airplane with the inscription "Medellín - Ciudad de Botero" testifies to the admiration of the artist. He donated his painting collection to international artists to the city of Bogotá , which then founded the Museo Botero .

Botero also had to deal with the downsides in his life. After a failed kidnapping attempt, he gave up his house not far from Bogotá, where he had worked for a long time. His son died as a child in a traffic accident and has been drawn by Botero several times since then. He sees his life divided into one before the death of the son and one after. He is currently working on a series of pictures about the circus, whereby it is important to him, as always, to create his own circus.

production

Botero - Born in Medellín was created on the occasion of Fernando Botero's 75th birthday. Director Peter Schamoni and Botero had known each other since 1966 and were friends. Schamoni originally wanted to make a film about Botero as early as the 1970s. The death of Botero's son Pedro, however, led Botero to take a break, so that the film plans fell apart. The reason for starting the film project again was the Abu Ghuraib picture cycle, which received international attention. The shooting of Botero - Born in Medellín began in 2006. It was the last film by director Peter Schamoni, who died in 2011.

The film premiered on June 28, 2008 at the Munich Film Festival ; it was the closing film of the festival. It was released in theaters on October 30, 2008 and was released on DVD in 2009.

The narrator in the film is Mario Adorf .

criticism

For the film-dienst , Botero - Born in Medellín was a "sensual film, which, due to its hermetic design, of course requires an open-minded audience." The Süddeutsche Zeitung called the film a "luxuriously colorful and revealing work ...". The Tagesspiegel found that "Peter Schamoni's film portrait [opens up] the 76-year-old artist in an extremely dynamic way."

Cinema wrote that Botero's life and work are presented in the film "in tiresome detail". Die Welt criticized: “Instead of getting close to the painter and sculptor, Botero's stations in life are washed away like in a water heater, and some scenes appear as if from a commercial. Perhaps that's because Shamoni has known Botero for forty years. And from the fear of being too close came the distance. "

Awards

The film evaluation board awarded Botero - Born in Medellín the title “Particularly valuable”. The jury justified its judgment: “Peter Schamoni knows how to turn the art of others into film art. In Botero he proves this again by keeping a fine balance between a retrospective, artist biography and a self-portrait of the painter [...] An all-round successful film ”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gabriele Gorgas: The painter and sculptor Fernando Botero. Interview with Konrad Hirsch . In: Dresdner Latest News , February 13, 2006, p. 10.
  2. ↑ a b anarchist of proportions . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 27, 2008, p. 53.
  3. ↑ Botero - Born in Medellín. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Cristina Moles Kaupp: Big Friends. Peter Schamoni's film portrait about Botero . In: Der Tagesspiegel , No. 20074, November 3, 2008, p. 28.
  5. ↑ See cinema.de
  6. ↑ Gabriela Walde: With Botero around the world . In: Die Welt , October 30, 2008, p. 25.
  7. ↑ See Botero - Born in Medellín on fbw-filmb Bewertung.com