ROBERT POUS
BOTERO’s CAT: THROUGH THE VOID
ART INTERVENTION
On a soft white surface, Botero’s cat floats.
It does not rest. It is suspended above a geometric void that is not matter, but absence. The rounded, iconic, and heavy body —a symbol of stability— has lost its anchor. Now, the volume levitates without a pedestal, pierced by nothingness.
The contrast is radical: carnality versus void, full form against the clean cut of the invisible. It is no longer just a sculpture, but a figure in transit: between presence and disappearance, between object and idea.
The void not only supports it: it also transforms it.
Official intervention of Botero’s Cat, Fernando Botero for the project "Los amigos del Gato".
Series: Space Morphologies, 2025
Dimensions: 90 cm x 90 cm x 71 cm + CAT
Materials: Pigments, marble dust and acrylic
Artistic intervention proposal by Robert Pous | EAST WEST SPACE
“Amigos del Gato” is a public art initiative between Cali and Barcelona that pays tribute to master Fernando Botero and promotes art as a tool for urban transformation. Inspired by Cali’s “Las Gatas del Río” project, the program brings together 5 artists/galleries to intervene Botero’s Cat sculptures and activate a cultural route in Barcelona. The talk held at the Reial Cercle Artístic de Barcelona serves as a space for exchange between institutions, artists, and the public, strengthening the ties between both cities through culture.
ROBERT POUS
About the artist
Robert Pous has dedicated part of his artistic activity to the search for a synthesis between the most geometrically pure morphologies derived from mathematical algorithms and the generative morphology of the human figure. This search is framed within three areas of work that he calls morphological series: of human, of space, and of time. These three lines allow him to apply his formal theories in both the field of the human figure and in geometric structures or shapes generated by chaotic-temporal elements, as well as in a more experimental line of work, in the format of video projection. In this medium, he employs techniques of indirect creation of form, setting up technical processes so that, once the basic mechanisms are established, the artwork self-realizes.
Robert Pous seeks to delve into the study of symbolic morphologies. His constants are linear structures that follow recursive trajectories in search of an unsettling reality. As these lines traverse the surface of the canvas, they form a background akin to a Lemian ocean that, despite being the least present element in the work, ultimately takes center stage.