Throughout his career—which began in 1950, when he was 16—the Columbian artist Fernando Botero depicted living forms with an exaggerated volume, as if they’d been inflated like balloons. He was poking fun, critiquing various local types: the upper classes, the members of Medellin’s drug cartels, the pompous middle class. Over the years, the style became known as “Boterismo.” The artist, who died in 2023, said, “I often think about death, and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.” This retrospective is curated by his daughter, Lina Botero. —Elena Clavarino