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LAST CHANCE!FERNANDO BOTERO: ABU GHRAIBFernando Botero: Abu Ghraib 66, 2005 |
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Staff Report NEW YORK, 16 November 2006—On view until Saturday, 18 November at the Marlborough Gallery, this special exhibition of works by the Colombian artist, Fernando Botero (b. Medellín, Colombia 1932) is worth a detour for visitors to the Big Apple. These works, which come from the artist’s own collection and are not for sale, are personal statements of his reaction and feelings stemming from his reading of news media accounts of the events taking place at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2003.
The show consists of approximately forty-five works and include both paintings and drawings. The subject of the works deals with the abuses, both physical and moral, that were inflicted on the Iraqi prisoners. In depicting these offensive and violent scenes from the chapters of war’s atrocities and man’s inhumanity to man Botero follows a long line of artists, such as Goya, Grosz, Manet, Dix, Beckmann and Picasso, whose reactions to war have been documented in various media and artistic forms.
The series was first exhibited as part of a larger exhibition at the Palazzo Venezia in Rome in 2005, followed by showings at the Würth Museum in Künzelsau, Germany and the Pinacoteca in Athens, Greece. This is the first viewing in the United States.
Prestel has published a book of Botero’s paintings and drawings of Abu Ghraib with a text by Art in America's David Ebony. Fernando Botero: Abu Ghraib
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