Evaristo Bellotti

EVARISTO BELLOTTI (Algeciras, 1955).
"NYC I", 1988.
Drawing and collage on paper.
Signed, dated and titled in the lower left corner.
Size: 50 x 30,5 cm; 63 x 51 cm (frame).
Primarily a sculptor, although he has also worked as a painter, Evaristo Bellotti began to make himself known at the beginning of the eighties in group exhibitions held in Madrid. His work is marked by his interest in the classical and the Mediterranean, and by the concepts of fragment, time, body, vestige, etc. Thus, his language seeks to find the keys where classical forms are combined with ancestral traditions, a model of syncretism and Romanisation. In recent years, Bellotti has had solo exhibitions at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, the Museo Barjola in Gijón, the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, the Diputación Provincial de Cádiz, the Bach Quattre gallery in Barcelona and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, as well as taking part in major group exhibitions in Spain, Italy and Mexico. As an artist, he belonged to the famous Fernando Vijande gallery in Madrid. He has public monuments in several Spanish cities, and is currently represented in the MNCA Reina Sofía, the Spanish Academy in Rome, the Contemporary Art Museums of Álava and Moreno Galván, the City Councils of Madrid, Jerez de la Frontera and Calatorao, the Regional Councils of Murcia, Almería and Cádiz, the Andalusian Centre of Contemporary Art, the Postal and Telegraphic Museum of Madrid and the El Monte collection in Seville, among others, both public and private.