Bird
Artist:
Fernando Botero
Patron:
United Overseas Bank
First Placed in Singapore:
1990
Current Location:
on the riverfront, by UOB Plaza
entry:
Another Bird is found outside the airport in Florence, Italy. The works are cast in Tuscany. Botero donated a similar bird to the city of Medellin, Colombia, his birthplace, in the mid 1990s, as a gesture to rebuilding the city devastated by drug-related violence. The sculpture was bombed, with 26 casualties. (Source: Penelope Richardson website).
From the Miami Herald, May 8, 2000
"On June 11, 1995, a huge bomb exploded in an open-air park in Medellin. It was hidden at the feet of his [Botero's] outdoor sculpture, The Bird, and killed 23 people and wounded 200 others.
'This was so completely stupid,' Botero said. 'When I learned of it, I said leave the [damaged sculpture] there, as a monument to stupidity.'
In January, Botero returned to Medellin to unveil a second sculpture, The Bird of Peace, placed a few yards south of the mangled, blast-damaged original sculpture. 'I want this to remain as a monument to violence and the peace,'' he said.
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Shading area
Stand near this bird you feel a cooling shade sensation, under its tail, not the wings.