Lot Essay
Born in Santa Fe de Bogot to 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 in his own account of his life as an open homosexual in Colombian society, criticizing 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 line.