45x59cm
acrylic on wood panel
winter 2020-21


in three paintings, gilberto botti shows sections of the isar landscape along the path that leads from the zoological garden to the center of munich. embedded in curtains of trees that line the edges of the river, soaring chimneys and a railroad bridge appear like the abandoned buildings of a heroic landscape: a seemingly silent and lonely place outside of time... yet in the middle of a metropolitan city, in the winter of 2020