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MsKrazyKat rated 18 months ago- Finally went to see the exhibition of Botero's Abu Ghraib paintings last weekend. Strange seeing rage and horror expressed in Botero's particular idiom. The nightmarish paintings are almost comic, like he was portraying an especially perverse form of sumo wrestling. On one hand, it's important for artists to take on subjects like torture, and to remind us lest we forget, but on the other hand, it's very difficult for any work of art -- stylized and perfectly executed -- to convey the outrages at Abu Ghraib with more force than the original crummy snapshots.
- laodan rated 19 months ago
- FERNANDO BOTERO, Abu Ghraib. exhibition via 3QD, Marlborough Gallery Online Colombian artist Fernando Botero's paintings and sculptures grace museums and public spaces around the world, but he suddenly had trouble exhibiting his work in America when the topic was Abu Ghraib. A series of paintings depicting U.S. military abuse of Iraqis in Abu Ghraib prison was rejected by all the U.S. museums to which it was offered before it found a home at the Marlborough Gallery in Midtown Manhattan, where it opened last week and will remain on display until November 18. "Here there is total freedom of expression. That's why it was so alarming that the museums didn't want to show these works," Botero told Reuters in an interview at the gallery on Tuesday, surrounded by paintings of stripped and bound prisoners being abused by guards with dogs. URL: FERNANDO BOTERO, Abu Ghraib. exhibition URL: Botero's paintings of Abu Ghraib shunned in U.S URL: Abu Ghraib controversial paintings VIDEO
Whow, take a good look, for, tomorrow's history shall remember this in the same fashion as Picasso's Guernica... This is something that you just can't erase from reality it will permanently run after today's unilateral US foreign policy... I, personally, don't like Botero's style and I would not like to have one such painting in my home but one has to recognize that artistic creativity is something that can only operate in total freedom. What is important is not so much the form of a work of art but its content and the crudity of Botero's content can't be forgotten. Botero's Abu Ghraib serie will be remembered not for its artistic qualities but for its content... and those paintings are doomed to remain a permanent stain on the image of the United States in the eyes of the people of the world.
- FERNANDO BOTERO, Abu Ghraib. exhibition via 3QD, Marlborough Gallery Online Colombian artist Fernando Botero's paintings and sculptures grace museums and public spaces around the world, but he suddenly had trouble exhibiting his work in America when the topic was Abu Ghraib. A series of paintings depicting U.S. military abuse of Iraqis in Abu Ghraib prison was rejected by all the U.S. museums to which it was offered before it found a home at the Marlborough Gallery in Midtown Manhattan, where it opened last week and will remain on display until November 18. "Here there is total freedom of expression. That's why it was so alarming that the museums didn't want to show these works," Botero told Reuters in an interview at the gallery on Tuesday, surrounded by paintings of stripped and bound prisoners being abused by guards with dogs. URL: FERNANDO BOTERO, Abu Ghraib. exhibition URL: Botero's paintings of Abu Ghraib shunned in U.S URL: Abu Ghraib controversial paintings VIDEO
