Sculptures by Fernando Botero, Frank Stella and Robert Indiana at Miami Sculpture Garden

The works of more than fifty major artists have been installed at the Nader Sculpture Garden, in Miami’s Design District, opened to the public during Miami Art Week.

 

Included in the park are works by Fernando Botero, Robert Indiana and Frank Stella.

 

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Colombian-born artist, Fernando Botero, died on September 15, 2023 at the age of 91. His Boterismo paintings and sculptures of large figures were not only humorous and sensual, but often works of social critique.

 

 

“My popularity has to do with the divorce between modern art, where everything is obscure, and the viewer who often feels he needs a professor to tell him whether its good or not.” he said. “I believe a painting has to talk directly to the viewer, with composition, color and design, without a professor to explain it.” 

 

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Frank Stella changed the art world in many ways. The ‘black paintings’ that he did in the late 1950s ushered in an era of minimalism. Throughout his long and successful career, Stella experimented with color and form and became a constant presence in the art world. Stella died at his home in Manhattan on May 4, 2024 at age 87.

 

 

For much of his career, beginning in 1967, Stella created series of screenprints and lithographs that incorporated variations of color, shape and textures in his print works. He designed shaped canvasses and, in the last years of his life, giant sculptures, which are part of the permanent collections of major museums around the world.

 

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Robert Indiana’s LOVE sculptures are some of the most universal and best known artworks in the world. LEGO has just announced that Indians’s LOVE sculpture is going to be available in 2025 as a LEGO art set…it doesn’t get more universal than that.

 

Indiana (1928-2018) was not just a sculptor, but a painter and printmaker, as well. Using letters, numbers and symbols, Indiana’s works often reflected social and personal concerns. “I have always thought of my work as being celebratory.” he said, Let’s say it’s the three Cs - commemorative, celebratory and colorful.”

 

Works from The Hartley Elegies series are available at Surovek Gallery. They were done by Indiana to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the German soldier Karl von Freyburg’s death at the start of the FIrst World War and his relationship with the American modernist painter Marsden Hartley (1877-1943).

 

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December 19, 2024