Antonio Bueno - Concertino

Sculpture can be defined as a genre scene, that is, the representation of an aspect of everyday life that, apparently, lacks any significant element. These types of domestic subjects were long considered minor and only began to spread in Western art starting in the 17th century. Only with the development of 19th-century realism did everyday subjects become considered as important as historical or religious ones.

The work exemplifies the recurring style in Antonio Bueno's painting and his elaboration of the human figure transposed into sculpture. A constant in Antonio Bueno's work is the construction of the figure through rounded forms, with accentuated symmetry, as if generated by a rotational movement around a pivot. Symmetry also permeates the overall composition of the entire work and the arrangement of the subjects. The facial features are generic but marked by a type of synthesis dictated by a conscious childishness that lends a naïve touch to this artist's characters. Everything is always depicted with a lucid objectivity in which the rationality of the volumes is clearly enhanced, without any pictorial effect.

Antonio Bueno was a Spanish-born painter born in Germany in 1918. He moved to Italy with his brother Xavier, another artist, in 1940, where he achieved great critical and public success, exhibiting at the Venice Biennale in 1984. He died in Fiesole that same year. His artistic language was characterized by various phases, from Impressionism to Verism, and finally to abstract experimentation. However, his work is best remembered for its rounded, plastic figures with childlike features.

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