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These sculptures have formed the largest traveling exhibitions ever imagined and have turned the parks, squares, and avenues of the world's major cities into true living museums.","brand":"Weaving the Planet | Villegas Editores | Alliance","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51854595686613,"sku":"9789589393635","price":1400000.0,"currency_code":"COP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6384\/7637\/files\/BOTEROSCULPTURES.png?v=1756490763"},{"product_id":"botero-women","title":"BOTERO WOMEN","description":"This is not just another thematic selection of paintings by Fernando Botero, the great Colombian artist whose work has traveled, like no other before him, to the most diverse stages around the planet. 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As this book shows, the bold and graceful female figures that primarily populate Botero's pictorial universe manage to transcend the limits of the canvas to become paradigms of a very special aesthetic vision.","brand":"Weaving the Planet | Villegas Editores | Alliance","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51854595817685,"sku":"9789588156446","price":1400000.0,"currency_code":"COP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6384\/7637\/files\/BOTEROWOMEN.png?v=1756490495"},{"product_id":"colombia-en-acuarelas","title":"COLOMBIA EN ACUARELAS","description":"The renowned Chinese watercolor artist, Song Xinru, is originally from Tianjing, where he studied and graduated from the academy of arts in his early youth. 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Many of his watercolors show the nature and culture surrounding the Amazon River along with many other mountain and plains points in Colombia, its fauna, flora, and landscapes.During the years lived here, this painter has managed to combine the style of Colombian art with the style of Chinese art, which uses and applies ink and brushes with a different technique, creating his own style, with Western and Chinese nuances. This book is a good selection of his watercolors about Colombia made over 30 years of travel and refined work.Song Xinru has held numerous solo exhibitions and also participated in international watercolor exhibitions in various places in Latin America and Spain, receiving important awards and valuable critiques. About a thousand of his works have been acquired by collectors from Latin America, North America, and Europe. 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In this journey, the artist even ventured, departing from his strong figurative vocation, into geometric and cubist styles. His style, so personal and classical, is a unique result in Colombian art in particular, and Latin American art in general. This book pays homage to an extraordinary artist who at 83 years of age remains as alert as 63 years ago, when Colombia acclaimed him for the first time.","brand":"Weaving the Planet | Villegas Editores | Alliance","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51854598766805,"sku":"9789588156385","price":364000.0,"currency_code":"COP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6384\/7637\/files\/GRAU.jpg?v=1754891535"},{"product_id":"gerardo-aragon","title":"GERARDO ARAGÓN","description":"Gerardo Aragón belonged to that generation of Colombian artists who developed under the influence of pop and abstract expressionism in the mid-1960s. 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Examples of this are the one at Cisneros square in Medellín, which helped recover a civic area of great importance in the city, or Nexus, a proposal to revive the historical past of the old Edge Hill railway station in Liverpool, England. For Peláez, public space is the place where all explored languages converge. This book is a privileged thematic account of a beautiful and important work.","brand":"Weaving the Planet | Villegas Editores | Alliance","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51854600077525,"sku":"9789588306629","price":364000.0,"currency_code":"COP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6384\/7637\/files\/LUIS_F_PELAEZ.jpg?v=1754891577"},{"product_id":"mario-velez","title":"MARIO VÉLEZ","description":"The work of Mario Vélez (Medellín, 1968), a fortunate product of the current plastic arts scene in the country, is the subject of this new Villegas Editores publication. 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This book, which explores the work of Mario Vélez guided by Luis Fernando Valencia, a thorough connoisseur of it, reaffirms this valuable artistic presence and states: “If all painting must be a testimony of its time and also carry behind it the tradition it abandons, Mario Vélez’s painting demonstrates this fact with elaborate resolution.”","brand":"Weaving the Planet | Villegas Editores | Alliance","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51854600208597,"sku":"9789588306896","price":219000.0,"currency_code":"COP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6384\/7637\/files\/Mario_Velez.jpg?v=1754891582"},{"product_id":"monica-meira","title":"MÓNICA MEIRA","description":"Mónica Meira —painter, draftsman, portraitist, and printmaker— is the artist to whom Seguros Bolívar dedicated its annual book in 2010 about outstanding figures in Colombian art.A disciple of great masters such as Juan Antonio Roda, Santiago Cárdenas, Juan Cárdenas, Carlos Rojas, Luis Caballero, Nirma Zárate, and Umberto Giangrandi, among others, Mónica Meira's work emerged in the country's plastic arts scene in the seventies, shortly after completing her studies at Universidad de los Andes.Following her initial pop-style works, the artist entered a phase in which she recreated unforgettable objects, almost always feminine —bags, gloves, boots, purses— and exquisite fabrics of great craftsmanship and beauty, clearly showing her enjoyment of textures and shades. 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The work of Santiago Cárdenas, exalted and acquired by the most respectable institutions of the contemporary plastic arts world, constitutes a poetic and novel pictorial order, which immerses us both in the realm of the trivial and the profound.","brand":"Weaving the Planet | Villegas Editores | Alliance","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51854604075221,"sku":"7707308150095","price":219000.0,"currency_code":"COP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6384\/7637\/files\/santiago_cardenas.jpg?v=1754891718"},{"product_id":"ignacio-gomez-jaramillo","title":"IGNACIO GÓMEZ JARAMILLO","description":"By the forties and fifties of the last century, Colombian art began a profound process of renewal that would allow it to break free from the rigid academic structures in place and make its way toward the modernity advancing without barriers in the world. 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This brilliant architect, who lived in Europe, worked with Sert in New York, and resided in Caracas, decided one day “without any disappointment,” as García Márquez says: to isolate himself from the world in an austere country house, where, with the complicity of dawn, he painted, with serene precision, the most beautiful still lifes in the history of national art. Without signature, without date, and almost always without title, these paintings show the artist's preference for the past and his disinterest in the fashion of the moment. 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Although this book does not strictly adhere to the chronological evolution of Juan Cárdenas, it does attempt to describe, through the sequence of his images, the different settings of his production, the facets of that unique and complex universe that the painter presents with deceptive simplicity. 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Without sacrificing quality for larger print runs, but with a sensible reduction in binding costs by opting for softcover, this initiative will benefit the reader who will be able to acquire these works at truly modest prices. It is, therefore, a collector's item. \"I am not going to profit from Colombia's pain,\" declared Fernando Botero when announcing his decision not to put any of the paintings he has made in recent years on the theme of terror and violence in the country up for sale, motivated by \"the moral obligation to leave a testimony about an irrational moment in our history,\" as he confesses. Consequently, the artist decided to donate the collection of these paintings \"twenty-three oils and twenty-five drawings, mostly unpublished\" to the Museo Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá, an institution that has been a frequent recipient of his generosity since very early in the painter's career. 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