Luis CABALLERO

original signed dated numbered etching
limited edition to: 100
on paper Vélin d'Arches 121 x 79,5 cm (47.64x31.30 inches)
(plate 98 x 74 cm) (38.58x29.13 inches)
references: This engraving was commissioned by Fondation Danielle Mitterand - France Libertés for the exhibit " Mémoire de la Libertè" at the Centre Pompidou Beaubourg, Paris
Luis Caballero (1943-1995) is one of the most important Latin American sketchers of this century. He died at the age of fifty, after sketching and painting violence and male homosexuality for over three decades, against the true path of Western art. He started with the Baconian expressionism and ascended to romanticism and mannerism until he reached his freedom: Michelangelo. His work, parallel to artists like Lucian Freud and David Hockney, is a powerful, tense, and natural talent that is dominated and controlled by rigor; not only by the technical rigor, but, above all, by his intellectual rigor. He draws like a sculptor but was never dedicated to sculpting, and his painting, of a sketcher seeking the aesthetic shape to turn into a transmitter of sensation going between extreme delight to pain, between ecstasy and death. Luis Caballero's work is the most dramatic and moving in Colombian Art. His individual testimony has no Paragon. Voluptuousness, desire, body immolation, love, ecstasy and epic sensitivity are his alone. His work, full of authenticity, building around him an inter-related art in one absolute individual art, exercised in isolation and solitude. That is why the concept of confession has been used to identify his painting.

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