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On display for 80 days
Fernando Botero´s Viacrucis exhibition received over 35,000 visitors at the Cecut
June 15, 2017The exhibition Viacrucis, the passion of Christ by the Colombian artist Fernando Botero, opened on March 24th and ended after 80 days on display with a great success at the Centro Cultural Tijuana (Cecut, for its acronym in Spanish) as part of the 35th celebration anniversary of this venue.
Viacrucis became the second most visited exhibition in this cultural center, registering an attendance of 35, 699 visitors, only after the display Frida Kahlo. Her photos that was exhibited in 2015.
"It is in a glorious second place because the most visited in the Cecut has been Frida Kahlo’s photos in 2015 that reached almost 58,000 visitors”, said Pedro Ochoa, director of the Tijuana Cultural Center, considering that Botero´s was 10 days less, due to the international commitments of the exhibition.
In an interview with the Federal Department of Culture, he pointed out that Cecut has been the only venue in our country that has hosted Viacrucis, an exhibition coming from the Antioquia Museum in Medellín.
"It is a display that has been exhibited little in the world. It has barely been in New York, Colombia, Portugal, Syria and with us. It’s been touring since 2011. Now it returns to Medellín to continue his travelling that I think it will go to Brazil”.
Made up of 27 large format oils and 34 pieces including watercolors and charcoal drawings, Viacrucis is an exhibition in which Botero portrays the whole stage of crucifixion and death of Christ.
Ochoa said that this exhibition had a great success, not only because of the number of visitors, but also because it showed the enormous potential that Cecut has to host exhibitions of international relevance, with large format pieces that require certain technical requirements.
The stay of Viacrucis, the passion of Christ at the Cecut was a unique opportunity for Tijuana and Baja California, especially from Ensenada and Mexicali, but also for the inhabitants of Southern California, to admire Botero’s work.
However, the Cecut will still host 14 other exhibitions throughout this year, which are part of the celebration of its 35th anniversary.
Pedro Ochoa said that next June 23rd, the exhibition José Luis Cuevas. Recent work. Tribute to his 86 years of age, is made up of 151 pieces that include drawing, letters, acrylics, seven bronze reliefs and 11 sculptures, which will be exhibited in Tijuana for the first time.
For August, Cecut will present the exhibition The splendor of papal Rome, made up of photographs by Massimo Listri, which is currently on display in the Museum of San Carlos, while the exhibition The last tule by Oaxaca painter Sergio Hernández is scheduled for September.
Also, it will be exhibited works by local artists such as Jaime Ruiz Otis and Saúl Andrade and there will be a very important exhibition titled The design chair, which addresses the history of this object from 1800 to 1964.
This exhibition, he said, will be provided by collector Ted Wells, who toured all the museums of San Francisco to Tijuana and the Cecut was the one that he liked more to host this unique exhibition that presents the chair as an art-object, both in the aspect of a power seat and as its everyday use.
This year of celebrations, said Pedro Ochoa, will close with the exhibition The magic of the smile that is carried out in collaboration with the INAH and the support of the Department of Culture, after almost 20 years that an archaeological display is not exhibited in Tijuana.
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