08/19/2008
New Yorker actor Robert De Niro presented an exhibition dedicated to his father’s artwork. Abstract expressionist painter Robert De Niro Sr. died of cancer in 1993 at age 71 and, being a self-proclaimed perfectionist, painted and repainted his canvases again and again. He would do hundreds of studies before he decided to paint his still lives, non-erotic nudes and crucifixions.
"Robert De Niro Senior" can be seen inside the Exhibition Hall of BBK and will run until September 27. It consists of 35 works made between 1955 and 1985, some of them selected by the actor specifically for Bilbao. Robert De Niro confessed that he has many of his father’s works at home. "The truth is that there is no painter like my father", he said.
Martine Soria, curator of the exhibition, said that "we must thank that De Niro came from New York in order to support the exhibition” and also that “his sensitivity and respect towards the work of his father is admirable”. Robert De Niro also felt grateful for being in Bilbao, a city that he visited for the very first time.
Robert De Niro’s father (Siracusa, 1922 - New York, 1993) experienced, like other artists of his generation, the “boom” of abstract expressionism and the irruption of pop art in the painting market. However, unlike the others, his works were not inspired by publicity. Robert De Niro Sr. venerated vanguard artists like Bonnard, Matisse or Derain.
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