Horacio Bustos Sculptures and Paintings

Dec 29, 2009 Daniel Mirante in Interviews 2 Comments Tags: Horacio Bustos, sculpture

Based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Horacio Bustos is an artist who’s originality lies in a sidereal fusion of warrior-like, religious, medieval, fetishistic and gothic influences.

Daniel Mirante: I see many combined diverse influences in your art, of mythology, ancient wars, and bizzare visions. How do you access these frequencies? What meaning do these beings you sculpt have for you?

Horacio Bustos: If, really, you see esoteric influences, they are absolutely unconscious. When I work, I’m focussed but lacking any imagery, I let myself be taken by a superior force. I am like the tool of a surgeon. I am operated. I respond to the hand that is the true guide.

Daniel Mirante: What artists have been especially strong inspirations in your artistic practice?

Horacio Bustos: There is an artist who truly inspires me, and that is Hieronymus Bosch, of whom I have the same initials HB.

Daniel Mirante: Thanks for sharing your amazing work !

Horacio Bustos: I hope to have satisfied your questions. Namaste, Daniel.

Artist Bio

Self Taught. Born in Buenos Aires – Argentina in 1939
1965 live 2 years in Paris
1978 Buenos Aires “Lagard Gallery” Individual show of pictures
1979 Buenos Aires “Hoy en el Arte Gallery”
1979 Buenos Aires “Sociedad Hebraica Argentina”
1979 Buenos Aires “Praxis Gallery” Premium young painter
1980 Buenos Aires “Arthea Gallery” premium young painter
1980 Buenos Aires -Premium “Salon Anual de Artes Plasticas of “Direccion de Cultura”
1981 Buenos Aires “Primer Salon Filatelico Argentino ESPAMER 81″
1981 Buenos Aires “Salon Municipal Manuel Belgrano” section picture
1981 Buenos Aires “Salon Municipal Manuel Belgrano” section monograph
1982 Buenos Aires “Salon Municipal Manuel Belgrano” section picture
1982 Buenos Aires”Planetarium of the Buenos Aires City” Individual show of pictures
1982 Bogota-Colombia “Diners Gallery” Individual show of pictures and sculptures
1983 Washington-EEUU-OEA:Auction for earthquake in Popayan-Colombia
1983 Buenos Aires “Salon Municipal Manuel Belgrano” section pictures
1983 Bogota-Colombia”Diners Gallery” Individual show of pictures and sculptures
1984 Buenos Aires “De Benedictis Gallery” individual show of pictures
1985 Buenos Aires “Museo de Arte Moderno” individual shaw of pictures:”Landscapes of New Yrork”
1986 Rio de Janeiro-Brasil “Bonino Gallery”show of latin American painters
1986 Buenos Aires Third Premiun “Petroleum Salon”
1986 Gainesville-Florida-EEUU “Four Contemporary Argentines Painters”
1986 Santa Fe-Argentina-”Annual Salon of Plastic Arts”
1986 Buenos Aires “Egea Gallery” individual show of painters and sculptures
1988 “Rubers Gallery” individual show of pictures
1991 “Rubers Gallery individual show of pictures
1994 Bogota-Colombia “Alfred Wild Gallery” Latin Americans painters
1996 Guatemala “El Tunel Gallery” Five Argentines Artists
1997 “Forma Gallery” individual show of the last 15 years
1998 Buenos Aires “Palais de Glace “Bienial of Sacred Art”
1999 “Vyp Gallery” individual show of pictures and sculptures
2005 Buenos Aires “De Santis Gallery” individual show of pictures
2008 Buenos Aires “Palais de Glace” individual stand with sculptures