B for Volume: Pablo Escobar’s Death

Botero should be spelled with a V for Volume. The volume that Botero created made his city known the world over. To talk about Botero is to talk about Medellín, and vice versa. With the input of nearly 60 experts in architecture, history, anthropology, medicine, entrepreneurship, fashion, politics, religion, chemistry, and art the 12 episodes are based on 12 paintings, that explain what the current Medellín is like. What made it the way it is, and who were and are its inhabitants? Each artwork transports a piece of Medellín, as if the painter turned documentarian explaining his city, his people, his culture to the whole world. The series is educating Latin Americans about themselves and what it meant for that young man from a post-colonial city nestled in the Andes to become a renowned figure: the ambassador of Colombian culture. It involved international recognition and respect for Colombia, being the creator of a new artistic movement, and above all, freeing the mind by altering reality in a way that accommodates everyone. B for Volume is a way of thanking Botero for being the precise reputational counterweight, but also for giving Colombians the opportunity to understand the true meaning of those figures that, whether you like them or not, are part of their history.