Xavier Bueno
Dolomite, sessile oak and the soft leather of the daybed provide an elegant backdrop for the textures that sand and oil create on the Spanish artist’s canvases. A room filled with charm and well-being, sculpted in ancient materials and boasting an enchanting view of the village lights from the freestanding whirlpool bathtub.
- Freestanding whirlpool bathtub
- Mountain-view balcony with large wooden chair and sheepskin leather seat
- High-quality mattresses
- Minibar and safe
- Multilingual Smart TV
- Wooden flooring
- Windowed bathroom
- Dolomia stone details in the room
- Selection of fresh fruit upon arrival
- Pillow menu with a variety of pillows to choose from
- Soft blanket
- Premium courtesy line with natural high-end products
- Kettle with a selection of herbal teas, tea, and coffee
- Comfortable bathrobes, towels, sauna towels, and slippers
- High-speed fiber-optic Wi-Fi connection
- Housekeeping service - twice-daily
- Comfortable shoehorn with brush
- Umbrella
- Mattress topper
- Choice of duvet and full bed setup
- Fabric laundry bag
- Two Montura merino wool blankets
- In-room temperature control
Xavier Bueno
Son of a journalist father, he was perpetually traveling with his family who settled in Switzerland, in Geneva in 1925. His talent revealed itself at the age of fifteen, when he was already enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts.Returned to Spain with his mother, he privately attended both painting courses and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando.
In Paris, where he moved in 1937, he exhibited his works of Spanish realism and classical inspiration echoing Velazquez, Goya, Murillo; his pieces were exhibited in New York too. The following year his brother Antonio, also a painter, joined him in Paris; it was the beginning of a ten-year collaboration between the two brothers.He moved again in the 1940s, this time in Italy together with his mother and his brother Antonio. He did not expect this destination to become the family’s permanent residence.With Annigoni, Sciltian and his brother Antonio, in 1947, he formed a group called Modern Painters of Reality, in opposition to the post-impressionist criticism, proposing a “true” art, reproducing nature as faithfully as possible.
The group went through a crisis at the end of the decade and the artistic paths of the two Bueno brothers divided too. The inclination for a politically active art was made more concrete in 1953 when Bueno adhered clearly to the art of real socialism. Equally significant of those years was the Brazilian experience of ’54, where he portrayed human figures of young farmers and children using Indian ink, motionless in a flat and unreal atmosphere; the theme was evoked between the 50s and 60s with the Children series, a symbol of oppression and degradation of the entire human race. After the trip to Brazil, Xavier Bueno technique changed and it was defined as fresco on canvas because of the use of thickening materials such as sand and collage in figurative works, after having already experimented it in still lives .
He died in 1979 at his home in Fiesole, on the hill of Florence.
“Bueno still lives deserve special attention, raised in the bottomless space where thicknesses are created by the rhythm of the objects, subtracted from a metaphysical absence.”
Xavier Bueno
Son of a journalist father, he was perpetually traveling with his family who settled in Switzerland, in Geneva in 1925. His talent revealed itself at the age of fifteen, when he was already enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts.Returned to Spain with his mother, he privately attended both painting courses and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando.
In Paris, where he moved in 1937, he exhibited his works of Spanish realism and classical inspiration echoing Velazquez, Goya, Murillo; his pieces were exhibited in New York too. The following year his brother Antonio, also a painter, joined him in Paris; it was the beginning of a ten-year collaboration between the two brothers.He moved again in the 1940s, this time in Italy together with his mother and his brother Antonio. He did not expect this destination to become the family’s permanent residence.With Annigoni, Sciltian and his brother Antonio, in 1947, he formed a group called Modern Painters of Reality, in opposition to the post-impressionist criticism, proposing a “true” art, reproducing nature as faithfully as possible.
The group went through a crisis at the end of the decade and the artistic paths of the two Bueno brothers divided too. The inclination for a politically active art was made more concrete in 1953 when Bueno adhered clearly to the art of real socialism. Equally significant of those years was the Brazilian experience of ’54, where he portrayed human figures of young farmers and children using Indian ink, motionless in a flat and unreal atmosphere; the theme was evoked between the 50s and 60s with the Children series, a symbol of oppression and degradation of the entire human race. After the trip to Brazil, Xavier Bueno technique changed and it was defined as fresco on canvas because of the use of thickening materials such as sand and collage in figurative works, after having already experimented it in still lives .
He died in 1979 at his home in Fiesole, on the hill of Florence.
“Bueno still lives deserve special attention, raised in the bottomless space where thicknesses are created by the rhythm of the objects, subtracted from a metaphysical absence.”
