Abbou, le Botero… Hommage

– Mohammed Abbou « "أبو غريب" العراق و"أبو غرائب" تونس » – le 25 août 2005

Publié au sein du n° 1559 de

Tunisnews en date du 26 août 2004
http://www.tunisnews.net/26aout04.htm

Aujourd’hui M. Abbou est en prison ; Botero, LUI, est célébré par les médias US et expose un peu partout dans le monde sa vision de l’abjection des tortionnaires.

A propos de Botero …

Fernando Botero 1932-

Born in 1932 in Medellin, Colombia, Botero became interested in painting at an early age. His artistic precocity was evident in an illustrated article he contributed to the Medellin newspaper El Colombiano when he was seventeen. Titled Picasso and the Nonconformity of Art it revealed his avant-garde thinking about modern art. Botero moved to Bogot? in 1951 and held his first one-man exhibition there at the Leo Matiz Gallery. The following year, at the age of twenty, he was awarded a Second Prize at the National Salon in Bogota.

Botero style inflated shapes with unexpected shifts in scale is today instantly recognizable. It reflects the artist’s constant search to give volume presence and reality. The parameters of proportion in his world are innovative and almost always surprising. Appropriating themes from all of art history– from the Middle Ages, the Italian quattrocento, and Latin American colonial art to the modern trends of the 20th century–Botero transforms them to his own particular style.

Source : onlineartinc.com

Voir également:

– JUAN FORERO ” ‘Great Crime’ at Abu Ghraib Enrages and Inspires an Artist”, 8 mai 2005

Sur le site du

New York Times

– Elodie Vialle “Botero ou l’art contre les exactions des américains dans la prison d’Abou Ghraib”, 20 avril 2005

Sur le site de Marianne-en-ligne

– SPIEGEL ONLINE “Fernando Botero Tackles US Abuses in New Work”, 22 avril 2005

Sur le site de SPIEGEL ONLINE