Chianciano Art Museum
Critical Analysis Artist: Mari Bueno Art Critic: Christopher Rosewood
ICAC
International Confederation of Art Critics
Critical Analysis Artist: Mari Bueno Art Critic: Christopher Rosewood
The Museum The Museum of Art of Chianciano hosts a series of collections ranging from Neolithic and Asiatic to Contemporary art. There are approximately a thousand works on display. Visitors are able to view paintings and sculptures by artists such as Tom Nash, Salvador Dali, Sir Henry Moore, Frances Turner, Mario Schifano, Damien Hirst, Brian Willsher and Albert Louden, drawings by the likes of Magritte, Guttuso and Munch; historical works from Royal Collections and original etchings by masters such as Dürer and Rembrandt. The museum is known for organising annual international events, including the Chianciano International Art Award and the Biennale of Chianciano.
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) “Joachim and the Angel” Original woodcut, circa 1504
Sir Henry Moore (1898-1986) “Head” Bronze Sculpture
ICAC
International Confederation of Art Critics
The Critic Christopher Rosewood was born in Hastings in 1952 and is a critical writer and curator based in London. Rosewood is the creator of the book “Figures; from Realism to Abstraction” that elegantly describes the interiors of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the permanent collections and the artworks of great contemporary artists such as Tom Nash and Jin Cheng Liu. The exhibition was presented at the Victoria and Albert Museum and was well received by the public and the critics. This important publication is a testament to the difficult task of selecting the artists and hosting the exhibition. Christopher also selected important works by Frances Turner presented at Museo del Chopo in Mexico. These works were published by the Museum in an important publication during this solo show. A noteworthy quote by Rosewood is “Always with the artist.” He has a huge admiration for artists who he believes are people that often work in solitude, who create and who send their message to the world, a message that is often related to their feelings -. whether in a still life or a artwork depicting social issues or an abstract that allows the viewer to have a totally personal interpretation of the artwork. Christopher is not only an art critic of contemporary art but is also well known his research on Renaissance artists. Christopher contributed to important writings on Palma the Younger, the artist that finished Tiziano’s “Pietà” after his death, as well as his studies on Durer, Rembrandt and Rubens. Rosewood was a great friend of Bill Hopkins of the International Association of Art critics with which he participated in research on the various aesthetic expressions linked to art and the philosophy of form.
Mixed media on canvas by Mari Bueno
The Artist
For the past 34 years Artist Mari Bueno has lived and worked in Sinop, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Her works are the expressions of Amazon’s features and the enculturation in Sacred Art. Bueno’s work has been recognized both in Brazil and throughout the world where she has garnered 19 awards from Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, England, USA, Portugal and Egypt. She also participated in three exhibitions at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, where she earned an honorable mention for her works. In 2012 Bueno was the sole Brazilian representative of 140 artists from 40 countries at an exhibition at the Museum of Art in Siena, Italy. In 2013 she participated in two collective exhibitions in galleries, one in Lisbon and the other in London. During the same year she also participated in two biennials in Europe, the London Biennale, where her participation gave her a special mention and the Biennale of Chianciano in Italy. In 2014 she held a solo exhibition with 49 sacred works at the Museum of Sacred Art and Ethnology at the Shrine of Fatima in Portugal. As a Specialist in Liturgical Art and Sacred Space Celebrative Bueno’s large (480 m²) murals appear in the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Sinop as well as other churches throughout the region.
Mixed media on canvas by Mari Bueno
The Critique Mari Bueno is a polyhedral artist. Her fantasy, her capability to absorb images and her way of elaborating feelings make her an artist that ranges from abstract, to installation, to sacred art, to new impressionism. It is on these two styles that our attention must mainly befall: abstract and new impressionist art. Fantastic compositions and mysterious signs of an unknown script exude from her abstract works and make us desire to understand it and learn from it. Mari knows this script, it is her subconscious that transmits it to us. The viewer perceives the harmony, the skillful play of colours, the beauty of the compositions and is intrigued by the language that leads him to dig further and dive into her subconscious. Her works seem easy to interpret but, on the contrary, they require great concentration and analysis because each work conveys a different message or a mysterious text that comes from the pulsating heart of a continent that speaks to Mari constantly, and that she magically submits to us. From the mosaics to her sacred art, we can see influences of the wonderful works of Chagall in the Rheims Cathedral, and the impressive light and chiaroscuro of the great Caravaggio. Mari Bueno is an intellectually open minded painter. She is curious and inserts whatever captures her interest or whatever she sees, into her works. Scenes from daily life, laborers going to work, Madonnas that look at us with love, depicted perfectly with masterfully drawn lines, where nothing is left to chance and the artist’s skill is so evident that it takes us back to pre-Renaissance, to Giotto and the great masters of the sacred Florentine and Senese art. Mari Bueno is all of this: the freedom of abstract art, the precision and security of sacred art, and the knowledge to portray daily scenes on canvas. Her most recent creation and the more minimalist one, certainly the most conceptual one, is installation, in which, once again, she shows us the beauty, harmony and complexity of the Amazon. Tree trunks and leaves transport us into a world we had forgotten completely. A world that has no cement or skyscrapers; a world that stopped thousands of years ago in a fantastic and enormous forest that enables the artist to think, meditate, work. Mari Bueno’s great master is nature itself that she manages to describe with great talent. Her wonderful ability to use colour and her perfect technique has made her an important, lively, eclectic artist in today’s contemporary world.
Christopher Rosewood International Confederation of Art Critics
Mixed media on canvas by Mari Bueno
Mixed media on canvas by Mari Bueno
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