The vaporesque veils of atmosphere and light, isan exhibition of recent paintings by Rafael Bueno — In his first solo exhibition in New York City, he presented works that weave a dialogue between mystical and spiritual evocations of the sublime that simply, poetically and romantically reflect history and the web of humanity. With raw and painterly gestures that attempt to capture pure essence and emotion, his paintings conjure undetermined spaces, presumably landscapes, yet at many moments they seem to call to mind mysterious interiors. They are places where space and its field are ghostly and vaporous atmospheres that waft along timelessly in whispery tones. Like the residue and buried little treasures of what the tides ebb leaves behind on the shore, the imagery exists in terms of ephemeral breaths.

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Rafael Bueno was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1950 where he received a Masters degree in architecture at The University of Buenos Aires and studied drawing at the Asociación Estimulo de Bellas Arte in Buenos Aires.  He moved to New York in 1985 where he currently lives and works.  Since 1974 his work has been exhibited Internationally and particularly in Buenos Aires, New York and Paris at the places such as The Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo NY, M13 Gallery and Howard Scott Gallery, NY, the Museum of Modern Art, Bs. As., El Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Bs. As., Aina Nowack Gallery, Madrid, Adriana Rosenberg Gallery, Bs. As., the Klemm Foundation, Bs. As., Centro Cultural Recoleta, Bs. As., America’s Society, NY, the Grand Palais Paris, Kouros Gallery, NY, Virginie Boissiére Art contemporain, Paris, Cite Universitaire de Paris and IILA de Roma among others.  He was awarded First Prize in Painting from The Jewish Society of Argentina in 1978, First Prize Architects painters at the Galeria Rodrigo Carmona in 1983 and the Air France Award in 1984. His work is included in the collections of Chase Manhattan Bank, The Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires, Fundacion ESSO, Buenos Aires, Museo Castagnino Rosario Santa Fe, Argentina, Museo Caraffa, Cordoba, Argentina and el Museo Arte Contemporaneo De Maldonado in Uruguay among other private collections.