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拍品專文
Born in Santa F de Bogot into what the artist called a 'religious, violent and fanatic' society, Luis Caballero constantly depicted the drama, anguish, passion and fear found in this environment through powerful renderings of the human body. The ordeal and violence found in Caballero's work is also inspired by his own accounts of life as an open homosexual in Colombian society, criticising social and political injustice. Caballero treated drawing as a wholly monumental art form. His media varied, at times employing black oil on paper to make bold, dense outlines as well as using sepia pigment to create warm, visceral forms, or ink attributing delicacy and accuracy to the lines.
"...What makes Caballero's work so extremely personal, so disturbingly memorable to anyone who has encountered it, is his control of what one might describe as pictorical rhetoric, and the use to which this skill is put. The paintings and drawings combine the transcendental, the sensual and the cruel in a peculiarly disturbing way."
Edward Lucie-Smith
"The body is the axis of his quest. The body is truth and metaphor for Caballero. In this recent period, he tries to regain the line of energy that animated his early autonomous paintings... Amidst the voluptuosity of these ambitious works, drawing is dealt with like an abstraction."
Beatriz Gonzlez
"...What makes Caballero's work so extremely personal, so disturbingly memorable to anyone who has encountered it, is his control of what one might describe as pictorical rhetoric, and the use to which this skill is put. The paintings and drawings combine the transcendental, the sensual and the cruel in a peculiarly disturbing way."
Edward Lucie-Smith
"The body is the axis of his quest. The body is truth and metaphor for Caballero. In this recent period, he tries to regain the line of energy that animated his early autonomous paintings... Amidst the voluptuosity of these ambitious works, drawing is dealt with like an abstraction."
Beatriz Gonzlez