About this product
The man and the work, same frame, same scale. Fernando Botero stands to the right of an oversized bronze head — his own formal vocabulary looking back at him — both rendered in deep teal halftone on a natural ground, the grain heavy and editorial. "BOTERO" spans the chest above them in wide, cracked block letters, the ink fractured across each letterform. Below: "MEDELLÍN, COLOMBIA – MARCH 1979 – BIG FORMS TOUR" runs in a single line of tight serif caps.
By 1979 Botero had been working in sculpture for nearly a decade, casting the same volumetric figures he'd been painting since the '60s into bronze large enough to occupy plazas. The forms were never about weight or excess — they were about volume as a formal problem, about what happens to a figure when you inflate its mass until gravity itself seems to reconsider. The design puts him beside that problem. He looks comfortable there. Poetas Y Punks mark at the neckline. 4.2 oz Airlume combed ring-spun cotton, retail fit.