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Dominican painter and sculptor born on March 5th, 1954. He is originally from Jarabacoa, municipality of La Vega, Dominican Republic. He is the son of Antonio Salvador de la Rosa and Rosagilma Bueno, his mother. He lived in Constanza since he was 3 years old, until 1985. Then he decided to move to the capital city – Santo Domingo. From an early age he showed his love for the arts, especially music and singing, and then the plastic arts in an empirical way. He studied high school in Constanza and pursued higher studies in Universidad Mundial Dominicana, where he obtained an undergraduate degree in social sciences. For ten years he worked as a social science teacher in several high schools. Then he spent part of his life as a businessman and stopped teaching for a while. In 2000 he enrolled in the National Fine Arts School to study plastic arts and completed his studies in 2004. Although his love for painting was very profound, he preferred sculpture – both modeling and carving, always keeping a high level in the development of painting.
Bueno has taken part in several exhibitions by artists organized by the Dominican Association of Plastic Artists, of which he is a member. In his artistic career, he has received several awards for his work as an artist, such as:
1. Second place in Artistic Anatomy, in 2002
2. Second place in Sculpture, in 2001
3. Third prize in Sculpture I, in 2003
His works have mainly been commissioned and private works, and he has devoted most of his time to them.
Bueno was involved in the Dominican film La fiesta del chivo (The Feast of the Goat). He modeled several sculptures and plastic arts works for that film.
He is the author of several public and private works which are exhibited in the Dominican Republic. He was commissioned by the central committee of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD, in its Spanish acronym) to sculpt the bust of distinguished educator and former president of the Dominican Republic, Juan Bosch Gaviño. This work is exhibited in the national house of the PLD. Bueno is also the author of the bust of distinguished writer and poet Pedro Mir, which is displayed in the museum honoring the poet (Pedro Mir Museum) in the Autonomous University of Dominican Republic, as well as several private works in Santo Domingo and in the interior of the Dominican Republic.
Features and critical concepts about the artist:
The type of painting he practices is suggestive Impressionism, but he loves classical style. These features are reflected in his paintings and sculptures. Bueno is also a surrealist both in painting and in sculpture.
According to critic Odalis Perez, the sculptural work of this artist does not ignore the painting or the music of the volumetric forms which make up a body -metaphor even within the concept created by the form-sense, focused on the interpretation of the body-image as an account of the root and a basis for identity and artistic form.
The artist expresses himself through carving practiced as a value of the presence of depth and silence. His training serves as a basis to select what is real. The artist also expresses himself as an axis of experience in the matter universe, which creates an archetype, as seen in the following works: La Familia (
Bueno’s works show the verticality, suspension, and stratification of bodies and presences which herald, in this case, a universe and a language where the sculptural sign updates the meaning of appliqué within the dynamism of carving. Composing, organizing, polishing, engraving, and perceiving, all categorize time and the relation of sense in the sculptural expression in the form of productivity and body of matter and sense.
In his paintings, the artist expresses a deep feeling and love for customs and particular situations occu
Bueno has undertaken the task of painting things that convey a message to the observer, or he depicts his own feelings. He employs music within a range of colors – sometimes cold and at other times hot, depending on the rhythm being played.
The artist shows great enthusiasm for music, which is part of his life. He can play guitar and other instruments. He is a singer-songwriter, and has recorded several songs, particularly in the Christian genre. His music is related with the arts – both painting and sculpture.
There is no doubt that his artistic training is very extensive and diversified. This makes him a special artist in the world of arts.
Yeanet Baez J.