GX1993.113.6

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 28; Larghezza: 24

bucchero

The buttero, Cambellotti's most celebrated artistic icon, seems to embody the most emblematic expression of his assonance with the plastic tensions of Futurist poetics: the stylized and dynamic image of the horseman of the Roman Agro, replicated in bucchero in 1924, in fact induces one to discern the definitive maturation of his direct expressive attunement with Futurist researches, as also confirmed by his close association with Giacomo Balla, who in 1908 published a pastel portrait of him in “Novissima”. The small black ceramic sculpture depicts a 'buttero' (cowboy), a traditional herdsman of the Lazio and Tuscany region, on horseback.