Artist
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The drawing, the colour, the light, Nature. 
These are the main concerns for my work.

 
The creativity is constant, the view and the gesture always point me new figurations. 
The colour and the drawing set themselves free from where they have emerged. 
From the landscapes, figures, objects and flowers it comes a constant seek of harmony 
between colours and shapes, wherein I try to put all of my emotion 
connected to Nature and the world that surrounds me as well.

 
The inclination for drawing comes from my childhood, when I used to 
visit repeatedly the studios of two uncles of mine. Later, I made a habit of walking along with 
both of them towards the countryside, in order to watch them work. By that time I begun to 
make some sketches. 
My interest have grown stronger and I started to draw regularly, and then, to search some 
art school where I could improve myself. 
I enrolled at Fine Arts at Guignard School, in Belo Horizonte (where I have specialized myself in drawing and engraving), then at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (idem watercolor). 
I took part in several art exhibitions at Ouro Preto Winter Festival and since 1982 very often do solo exhibitions in art galleries. 


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1981 
Single Exposition 
"Atelier Livre de Artes Plásticas" 
Belo Horizonte - MG - Brasil 
Drawing 

Prize "Salão da Ferrovia" 
Rio de Janeiro - RJ - Brasil 
Aquarelle 

1982 
6th "Salão Nello Nuno" 
Palácio das Artes - Belo Horizonte - MG - Brasil 
Drawing 

"Colletive of Gravure" 
Casa da Cultura 
Sete Lagoas - MG - Brasil 

1983 
"Extension Course" - UFMG - Belo Horizonte - Brasil 
Aquarelle 
Prof. Jefferson Lodi 

Conference on "Xylographic print" 
1st Week of Arts 
Escola Municipal Geraldo Teixeira da Costa 
Belo Horizonte - MG - Brasil 

1st "Salão de Artes Plásticas dos 
Profissionais do Serviço Público de 
Minas Gerais"  Belo Horizonte - MG - Brasil 
Drawing 

Single Exposition - "Fundação João Pinheiro" 
Belo Horizonte - MG - Brasil 
Aquarelle 

"1st Pirelli Prize Yong Picture” 
São Paulo - SP - Brasil 
Aquarelle 

1984 
"Forty years of Escola Guignard' 
Itaú Galeria - Belo Horizonte - MG - Brasil 
Drawing 

6th "Exibition of  Gravure" 
Cidade de Curitiba - Pan-Americana 
Curitiba - PR - Brasil 
Xylographic print 

Collective "Instituto de Artes e Cultura - UFOP" 
Ouro Preto - MG - Brasil 
Xylographic print 

Prize 2nd "Salão de Artes dos Funcionários Estaduais 
Belo Horizonte" - MG - Brasil 
Aquarelle 
Collective Exposition "A Busca do Signo" 
Secretaria Cultura de MG - Palácio das Artes - MG - Brasil 
Object 

1985 
Collective "Instituto Cultural 
Brasil Estados Unidos - ICBEU" 
Belo Horizonte - MG - Brasil 
Drawing 

Collective "Galeria de Arte TELEMIG" 
Belo Horizonte - MG - Brasil 
Aquarelle 
  
     
1986 
1st "Salão de Arte Mística" 
Palácio das Artes 
Governador Valadares - MG - Brasil 
Drawing 

2nd "Salão de Artes Plásticas da Aeronáutica" 
Museu de Arte de Belo Horizonte 
Belo Horizonte - MG - Brasil 
Drawing 

1987 
1st "Bienal Nacional de Arte Mística" 
Governador Valadares - MG - Brasil 
Drawing 

1989 
5th "Salão de Artes da Aeronáutica" 
Museu de Arte de Belo Horizonte - MG - Brasil 
Drawing 

1991 
Single Exposition 
"Galeria da Caixa - CEF" 
Belo Horizonte - MG - Brasil 
Drawing 

1992 
Mention on Catalog 
"Artes Plásticas Brasil 91/92" 
Single Exposition 
"Fundação João Pinheiro" 
Belo Horizonte - MG - Brasil 
Drawing 

1993 
Single Exposition 
"Corações e Mentes" 
Belo Horizonte - MG - Brasil 
Aquarelle 

1994 
Single Exposition 
"Galeria da Caixa - CEF" 
Montes Claros - MG - Brasil 
Aquarelle 

1995 
Single Exposition 
"Centro Cultural da UFMG" 
Belo Horizonte - MG - Brasil 
Aquarelle 

Single Exposition 
"Sala de Exposições Temporárias do Espaço Cultural" 
Câmara dos Deputados -  Brasília - DF - Brasil 
Aquarelle 

Single Exposition 
"Restaurant Casa dos Contos" 
Belo Horizonte - MG - Brasil 
Aquarelle 

1997 
Single Exposition 
"Restaurant Casa dos Contos" 
Belo Horizonte - MG - Brasil 
Acrylic on Canvas 

1998 
Single Exposition 
“Espaço Cultural Grande Loja Maçonica” 
Belo Horizonte - MG – Brasil 
Aquarelle 

Single Exposition 
“Galeria de Arte do Banco do Brasil” 
Belo Horizonte - MG – Brasil 
Acrylic on Canvas 
  

email: bottaro@fjp.gov.br