10. José Vento

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10. José Vento

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José Vento was born in Quart de Poblet (Valencia) in 1940 and is one of the most important Levantine artists of the twentieth century. His career began in the fifties, in which he worked in the abstract and the figurative.

His cartonnages made of painted cardboard containers are well known. He deals with transcendental issues such as war, despotism, and injustice. Although he also depicts themes such as carnival, music, dance, and love, he is also known for his cartonnages made from painted cardboard containers.

This piece is made of terracotta. Of medium size, we can sense the fragment of a bust. It evokes the idea of the body as a fundamental tool of dance, of beauty, of life, from a light classicism. José María Moreno Galván dedicated several texts to the analysis of his work, which he wrote about in the magazine Triunfo:

"I think he knew Vento's ideology very well. That ideology was based on his Mediterranean culture, which he never denied, but tried to find new ways out of it. He inherited a morphological sense of weights and gravitations from it and organized his world according to a system of measurements whose final modules always had to do with organic distances and human perspectives."