Ha muerto Fernando Botero, el pintor de nuestras tradiciones y defectos, el pintor de nuestras virtudes. El pintor de nuestra violencia y de la paz.
— Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) 2023年9月15日
De la paloma mil veces desechada y mil veces puesta en su trono
John Otis "Fernando Botero, Colombian artist famous for rotund and oversize figures, dies at 91" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/15/1199762401/fernando-botero-colombian-artist-dies
“Fernando Botero: Celebrated Colombian artist dies aged 91” https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-66819339
Nick Caistor*1 “Fernando Botero obituary” https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/sep/15/fernando-botero-obituary
コロンビアの画家／彫刻家、フェルナンド・ボテロ*2が現地時間９月15日にモナコの自宅で息を引き取った。享年91歳。
ボテロはモノのヴォリューム感の追求、おデブな人物像で知られるが、勿論それだけではない。彼の「よりダークな主題」について、NPRの記事から；
昨年、日本で巡回展が行われていたんだね*3。
Later in his career, Botero turned to darker subjects, like drug violence in Colombia. During an open-air concert in his home town of Medellín in 1995, guerrillas from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, placed an explosive device beneath his bronze sculpture, "Pájaro" ("Bird"), killing more than 20 people and injuring more than 200.He also painted victims of U.S. abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. "These works are the result of the indignation that the violations in Iraq produced in me and the rest of the world," he said.
*1:See also https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20170530/1496167303
*2:https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100050687160347 See eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Botero https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%8A%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9C%E3%83%86%E3%83%AD See also https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20160204/1454609463
*3:See 大月美佳「「南米のピカソ」ボテロ氏死去、あらゆる対象をふくよかに描く作風で人気」https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/culture/20230916-OYT1T50120/
