04 / 05
Abu Ghraib series
2004-05
Botero’s familiar rounded bodies become bruised, bound and tortured. A style associated with pleasure is forced to carry political horror.
Artist field note
Fernando Botero
Volume as a way of seeing power.
Appears inLatin America
The five in one idea
Botero’s enlarged bodies are not a joke repeated forever; at their best, scale reveals vanity, pleasure, violence and institutional power.