March 29, 2024

Valley Post

Read Latest News on Sports, Business, Entertainment, Blogs and Opinions from leading columnists.

The death of plastic artist Sofia Fari – Newsbomb – News

The death of plastic artist Sofia Fari – Newsbomb – News

At the age of 83 The death of the plastic artist and sculptor Sofia Fariafter Long battle with cancer. The artist ended up in the hospital on Friday afternoon Monte Carlo.

He was Wife of the famous artist and sculptor Fernando Botero. According to reports, her body will be flown from Monte Carlo to Paris for cremation and her ashes will be “traveled” to the couple’s villa in Pietrasanta in Tuscany.

Who was the artist?

Sofia Fari Born in Vari, Attica, as she got her name from a Greek father and a Hungarian mother. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Paris.

She took her first artistic steps in her field figurative painting, but since the mid-1980s he has turned to sculpture. She uses bronze and marble in her works, and they are usually of large dimensions.

She has also dabbled in jewelry and collage. He comes from an aristocratic family (the Kanilopoulou family).

in family mansion in Vari, where it eventually borrowed its name, Varkiza Agreement signed. She spent her childhood and youth in Greece, the UK and Switzerland, while studying at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Since meeting her Colombian husband in the 1970s, they’ve lived between Riongro in Colombia, Pietrasanta in Italy, Paris, New York, Evia, and of course, Monte Carlo.

See also  Spyros Papadopoulos is emotional about his health problem: if we lose, we lose...