The Visceral Poetics of Luis Caballero Holguín To encounter the work of Luis Caballero Holguín is to step into a realm where the boundaries between tenderness and trauma dissolve. Born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1943, Caballero emerged as a profound voice in Latin American art, crafting a visual language that spoke intimately to the complexities of the human condition. His oeuvre, characterized by its hauntingly beautiful male nudes, exists in a delicate tension between eroticism and violence, a duality that he navigated with unparalleled emotional depth. He famously remarked, “Sex is fast, ero…