SUPPORTERS TO HEAD SOUTH OF THE BORDER IN SUPPORT OF THE PALM BEACH ZOO’S “DO AT THE ZOO SOUTH OF THE BORDER” FUNDRAISER

WEST PALM BEACH (April 20, 2012) – Palm Beach Zoo supporters will be heading “South of the Border” on Friday, May 4th for the Palm Beach Zoo’s annual spring Do at the Zoo fundraiser.

The evening, hosted by Mary Baker and Susanna Hager with Whitney Bylin and Tommy Quick serving as Event Committee Chairmen, will include cocktails and a movable feast provided by area restaurants including: The Bonefish Grill, Cha Cha’s, Imoto, Outback Steakhouse, PB Catch, Café Sapori, Echo, the Leopard Lounge, the Palm Beach Zoo’s Tropics Café, and Rooney’s Public House.  Specialty Cazadores Tequila cocktails courtesy of Bacardi USA will be created specifically for the event featuring the “Bacardi Zoo Rock” and the “Bacardi 8 Safari Sipper”. Not to be missed will be the opportunity to meet and greet select animals accompanied by zookeepers throughout the evening on the Mayan Plaza.

Host Committee members that include: Lourdes Fanjul, Tory Grauer, Ashley Ramos, April Finch, Patrick Killian, Lauriston Roach, Mary Frietas, Emily Mateer, and Samantha Storkerson. Presenting Corporate Sponsors include Christie’s, Bacardi USA, and Florida Power & Light.   

All proceeds from “Do at the Zoo – South of the Border” will help the zoo advance its mission to protect wildlife and wildlife habitat and to inspire others to value and conserve the natural world.  The Palm Beach Zoo is home to more than 1,400 animals and is nationally accredited by the Association of zoos and aquariums. The zoo, located at 1301 Summit Boulevard, in West Palm Beach, is planning a new tiger exhibit in which a portion of the proceeds from the various zoo fundraisers goes towards.  This exhibit is being designed to enhance the habitat of the three Malayan tiger cubs born just one year ago. Last year, the Palm Beach Zoo was one of only two institutions to successfully breed Malayan tigers. In Partnership with Panthera and the Wildlife Conservation Society through their Tigers Forever project, The Palm Beach Zoo is proud to be a part of a global effort to help protect tigers and their habitat.  

Ticket prices for the “Do at the Zoo – South of the Border” start at $200.00 and sponsorships are still available by contacting the Palm Beach Zoo at: (561) 533-0887 ext 285 or emailing to: pviscusi@palmbeachzoo.org.

If you would like more information on this topic or to schedule an interview, please call Linda Soper at (561) 835-9057 or email: linda@lindalanemarketing.com.

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Renowned Artist Daniel Bottero & Internationally known Choreographer Jerry Opdenaker Collaborate at the Kravis Center

PALM BEACH (March 23, 2012) – Four outstanding companies will be presenting four incredible performances at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts Rinker Theater April 6-8. Collaborating with famous artists, musicians, and designers and presented by O Dance Founder and Director, Jerry Opdenaker, O Dance will play host to three nationally known companies in a progressive dynamic performance bringing in visual collaborations with contemporary artist Daniel Bottero as well as other famous designers, and dance companies.

Says Opdenaker, “Our program is a powerful and forceful display of creativity, innovation and Dance Theater that promises to captivate, entice and excite audiences with its roster of international guest artists and professional dancers.” Dance companies also participating include: Infinite Movement Ever Evolving from Houston, Texas, Surfscape Contemporary Dance Theater from Daytona, Florida, Reach Dance Company from Palm Beach Gardens, and special guest artists from the American Repertory Ballet from Princeton, New Jersey.

Says collaborator Daniel Bottero, “Expect a performance that is very vibrant and full of passion and enthusiasm both visually and through movement. We are thrilled to be a part of this exciting effort collaborating with such notable dance companies.”

Daniel Bottero is a contemporary artist with a showroom in Palm Beach and studio in Miami. His works have been represented in galleries and museums around the world and his paintings can be found in homes owned by celebrities and politicians alike. In addition to being a part of O Dance, Bottero is currently exhibiting at the Time Warner Center in New York City through the month of April.

The artist, a native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, graduated from the National School of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires. Upon graduation, Bottero moved to Italy where he earned his Master’s Degree at the Academia Italiana di Belle Arti in Lucca, Italy and then moved to Paris where he resided from 1986 to 1990. Bottero moved to the U.S. in 1990 and has called the U.S. home ever since. His works can be seen by visiting: www.botterocollector.com.

Bottero’s modernist works are featured in the corporate collections of Citibank, Xerox, Avon, Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan Chase Bank and are a part of many private collections including those of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Dan Marino, Gloria and Emilio Estefan, Al Pacino, Steven Segal and Oscar de la Hoya. In addition, Bottero has exhibited at several famous museums throughout the world and several paintings have been featured at both Sotheby’s and Christie’s auction houses in New York.

If you would like more information on this topic or to schedule an interview, please call Linda Soper at (612) 308-4159

THE TIME WARNER CENTER AT COLUMBUS CIRCLE PRESENTS THE WORKS OF DANIEL BOTTERO, APRIL 3-30, 2012

A selection of paintings by Argentine artist, Daniel Bottero will enliven the exciting exhibition space at Time Warner Center in Manhattan’s Columbus Circle throughout the month of April.

Bottero’s work can be described as both bold and dramatic—often energetically rendered in nearly fauvist hyper-color—yet equally lyrical. The well-known Miami-based artist has been hailed by the renowned American art critic, and former A. D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University, Donald Kuspit as, “A poet painter, that is, a painter who uses his medium to convey the poetry of his emotions, indeed of his temperament.”

Having lived in Manhattan for many years, Bottero made the recent decision to show at Time Warner Center “In order to embrace the cacophony of the urban landscape.” This choice is not surprising as in both the artist’s work, and in the refreshing way he views the commercial art world, Bottero is one of a dying breed. He is wholly unmoved by market trends, nor has he been tempted away from his first love—the pure application of paint on canvas. He has never wavered from the visceral thrill that honing and perfecting this traditional technique as his chosen means of expression has given him.

In addition, Bottero stands out in the context of the 21^st century contemporary art world, populated increasingly by artists who utilize the latest in digital and technological media to comment on temporal and political themes. Many artists today are working in an outward-referencing manner, often in an honorable quest to further the dialogue and dialectic surrounding difficult geo-political issues, yet Bottero has remained true to an inward-looking and highly personal perspective and has left the commentary and desire to agitate to others.

The serenity evoked by this highly personal aesthetic approach to universal themes and human emotions, has made Bottero’s work a favorite of prestigious private collectors including: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Al Pacino, Dan Marino and Gloria Estefan. In addition, his work is featured in acclaimed, and critically curated corporate collections including: Citibank, Xerox, Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan Chase Bank.

Although Bottero is a painter with roots in the Latin American Modernist aesthetic—he graduated from the National School of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires—his work has evolved and gained layers of depth and meaning, as a result of his extensive further education and travel. After leaving Argentina, Bottero earned his Master’s Degree at the Academia Italiana de Belle Arti, in Lucca, Italy, and spent long periods living in both Paris and New York—absorbing the cultural idiosyncrasies of these two great cities and art centers.

Critics and collectors often compare Bottero’s work to the best of modern cityscape painting, to the masters of Latin Magical Realism and to the evocation of the sub-conscious championed by the Surrealists. However, as is usually the case, the artist himself is uncomfortable with neat comparisons, and describes the driving forces behind his vocation best. As he potently puts it: “Yesterday, today, my life, new encounters, loves, dreams, loneliness, strange noises and sorrows”.

*Artist will be available for press and photo-op, April 4, from 5:15-5:45pm For further information please or to schedule an interview contact Linda Soper at (612) 308-4159. High-resolution photographs and video, available on request. Website: www.BotteroCollector.com.