Fernando Botero: Abu Ghraib
After reading Philip Kennicott's great article in The Washington Post last year, I started working on bringing Fernando Botero's Abu Ghraib paintings to the American University Museum. I am now thrilled to report they will be here November 6 - December 30, 2007. They will open at the University of California, Berkeley, next week (I'll be there), and then travel to two venues in Europe (I won't be there), before coming back here (where they belong).
Fernando Botero, Abu Ghraib 66, 2005, 33 x 32 cm, oil on canvas
Way to go Jack! Congratulations, I've been wanting to see them.
Posted by: mark | January 22, 2007 at 03:17 PM
WOW! What a coup! Congrats!
I hear Botero next will do a series on the human rights violations in Castro's island prison.... riiiiiiiiiiight!
;-)
Warm regards
Lenny
Posted by: Lenny | January 22, 2007 at 06:18 PM
Howdy!
Wicked Cool and congratulations.
Posted by: Zeke | January 22, 2007 at 06:37 PM
Botero's Abu Ghraib series can be seen in this short movie:
A Permanent Accusation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoleMx-sxqQ
Posted by: melfeasance | March 07, 2007 at 06:15 PM
Powerful, fantastic. They capture a deep sense of outrage. Definitely should be shown in museums in America. We need to wake up to see what a bunch of criminals have been running the country.
Right now we've just heard about the Bulgarian medics who were tortured in Libya and recently released. Same story, different country. And now the American and European companies can't wait to get into the country and get a piece of the pie. I hope that some artist (Botero or someone else---An Arab artist perhaps?) can help us to remember this horrible crime.
Posted by: Dale Gerdemann | August 04, 2007 at 08:58 AM