페르난도 보테로(Fernando Botero), 콜롬비아, 화가, 1932-2023

페르난도 보테로(Fernando Botero), 콜롬비아, 화가, 1932-2023

페르난도 보테로(Fernando Botero), 콜롬비아, 화가, 1932-2023

페르난도 보테로(Fernando Botero), 콜롬비아, 화가, 1932-2023

페르난도 보테로(Fernando Botero), 콜롬비아, 화가, 1932-2023

페르난도 보테로(Fernando Botero), 콜롬비아, 화가, 1932-2023

페르난도 보테로(Fernando Botero), 콜롬비아, 화가, 1932-2023

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페르난도 보테로(Fernando Botero), 콜롬비아, 화가, 1932-2023

페르난도 보테로(Fernando Botero), 콜롬비아, 화가, 1932-2023

페르난도 보테로(Fernando Botero), 콜롬비아, 화가, 1932-2023

페르난도 보테로(Fernando Botero), 콜롬비아, 화가, 1932-2023

페르난도 보테로(Fernando Botero), 콜롬비아, 화가, 1932-2023

페르난도 보테로(Fernando Botero), 콜롬비아, 화가, 1932-2023

페르난도 보테로(Fernando Botero), 콜롬비아, 화가, 1932-2023

페르난도 보테로(Fernando Botero), 콜롬비아, 화가, 1932-2023

 

페르난도 보테로(Fernando Botero), 콜롬비아, 화가, 1932-2023

'남미의 피카소’라 불리는 콜롬비아의 '보테로'가 추구하는 화두는 '풍만함'입니다. ‘보테리즘(Boterismo)’이라고 이름 붙여진 '팽창된 볼륨감'이 특징입니다.

 

르네상스 예술을 공부하러 이태리로 갔다가 그 풍만함의 매력에 빠졌죠. 50년 넘게 뚱뚱한 인물과 동물을 그렸으며, 심지어 꽃병 같은 정물까지도 그렇습니다. 하지만 작가는 말하길, “뚱뚱한 사람을 그린 것이 아니다. 다만 볼륨을 예찬할 뿐"이라고 합니다.

 

                                                                                                About Him

 

Fernando Botero (Colombian, b.1932) is celebrated for his painted and sculpted scenes featuring animals and figures with inflated proportions, reflecting the artist’s predilection for satire, caricature, and political commentary. Born in Medellin, Colombia, Botero began exhibiting his paintings there in 1948, and later worked as a set designer in Bogotá. In the 1950s, he traveled to several different European countries, including Spain, Italy, and France, to study the work of Renaissance and Baroque masters. He also traveled to Mexico to familiarize himself with the current Mexican avant-garde. Botero became renowned for the varied source material he drew upon, from Colombian folk imagery to canonical works by Diego Velázquez, Pablo Picasso, and Francisco de Goya.

 

In his depictions of contemporary Latin American life, he portrays the poverty and violence prevalent in Colombia in somber images, as well as in his iconic inflated figures, satiric images of Latin American presidents, first ladies, and government officials. A meeting with Dorothy Miller from The Museum of Modern Art in the early 1960s proved to be a turning point in his career; she acquired his work at a time when abstraction was the celebrated idiom, and he later exhibited his work in a major exhibition at the museum, solidifying his international reputation.

 

In the 1970s, Botero moved to Paris, where he created large figural sculptures with his signature inflated forms. He remains engaged with images of his Latin American home city, and with overtly political imagery; his recent works include large paintings of prisoners at Abu Ghraib in a direct commentary on the war in Iraq. Botero has exhibited his work at the Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen, the Maillol Museum in Paris, the Palazzo Benezia in Rome, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, and the National Museum in Bogotá. He lived and worked in Paris, Montecarlo, and New York. Botero passed away on September 15, 2023 at the age of 91.

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