GERMAN BOTERO
GEOMETER AND ARCHAEOLOGIST
The etymological origin of the word “geometry” comes from “geo,” meaning earth, and
“metric,” meaning measure. This can provide us a first insight into the vast and multiple works
of German Botero (Fresno, 1946). Throughout t decades, this Colombian architect who
graduated in the early 70s – and who was part of a generation that amidst the crisis of modernity
overturned the learning of the trade into artistic practices that renewed the scope of the arts in
Colombia – has built in metal, wood and stone a singular work of abstract body resulting from a
synthetic process of a telluric vision, deeply connected to the earth.