Agustina del buono
Visual Artist · Abstract Art · Madrid
Agustina Del Buono lives and works in Madrid. Born in Argentina, her practice emerges from the experience of immigration as a lived and ongoing process — one that reshapes identity, memory, and the sense of belonging.
Resistencia (Resistance)
Acrylic, cement, gesso, wood base, marble, collage and rope · _ × _ cmResistance emerges from one of the most demanding stages of the immigration process: the moment when time stops being yours. Days collapse into each other. The city moves at a pace that doesn't ask permission — and you move with it, not always knowing where you're headed or whether you'll make it.The painting holds that tension. The reds push forward with urgency, almost violence. The blacks pull downward, heavy with exhaustion. The white lines run across the surface like thoughts that won't slow down — like the internal voice that keeps saying keep going, keep going, even when the body asks for a pause.Resistencia is not about breaking. It's about the strange, relentless act of continuing anyway.
Apropiación / Pertenencia (Appropriation / Belonging)
Acrylic, gesso, wood base, marble, collage, rope and cement · 92 × 65 cmAppropriation / Belonging captures the quiet but profound moment when a foreign city stops feeling foreign. There is no single event that marks it — it happens gradually, almost without noticing. One day you walk without checking the map. The streets begin to carry your footprints. The language stops sounding like noise and starts sounding like home.The painting reflects that slow settling. The deep greens and blues of the left side carry the weight and density of something that has taken time to build — layered, textured, rooted. As the eye moves right, the surface opens: warm ochres and sandy tones emerge, lighter, more breathable. The collage fragments embedded in the work speak of things absorbed, of a city that has left its mark on you as much as you have left yours on it.Apropiación / Pertenencia is not about erasing where you came from. It's about discovering that you are capable of belonging to more than one place at once.
Inmigración y Reconstrucción
(Immigration and Reconstruction)
Gesso, cement, acrylic and collage · 60 × 90 cm
— Sold. Arrival Gallery, Madrid, May 2026Immigration and Reconstruction speaks of the first and most disorienting stage of leaving: the survival instinct that kicks in before you even have time to feel. A new city demands your full attention — logistics, language, orientation — while the life you knew recedes into the distance, becoming something you observe from the outside rather than live from within.The work holds the quietness of that period. The muted tones and layered surfaces reflect a turning inward — an introspective time when the most urgent question is no longer where am I but who am I now. The cement gives the piece its weight, its solidity; the collage fragments speak of identity pieced together from what remains and what is slowly being built anew.Inmigración y Reconstrucción is about the beginning of becoming someone you haven't met yet.This piece was acquired at Arrival Gallery, Madrid — May 2026.
Diptych · Acrylic, gesso, wood base, marble, collage and rope · 81.5 × 100 cm each panelShared Solitude captures one of the most paradoxical moments of immigration: the one where you are never truly alone, yet solitude lives permanently inside you. The new city asks you to show up — to meet people, to build connections, to navigate relationships with those who come from entirely different places and histories. The exterior is full of noise. And yet, beneath all of it, there is only silence.The diptych form itself speaks to this duality. Two panels, side by side — present to each other, yet each holding its own world. The muted pinks and mauves carry a tenderness that is also fragile; the deep burgundies and blacks speak of what cannot yet be shared with anyone. The collage fragments embedded in the surface — pieces of text, of printed matter — suggest the voices and stories of others absorbed into your own skin, present but not yet fully understood.Soledad Compartida is about learning to be among people while still finding your way back to yourself.
Soledad Compartida (Shared Solitude)
Lo que ya es mío
(What Is Already Mine)
Leaf, acrylic, cement and collage · 53.5 × 41 cm (framed)What Is Already Mine continues the dialogue opened in Apropiación / Pertenencia, but arrives at a quieter, more settled place. If that earlier work captured the process of adapting, this one captures what comes after — the moment when there is nothing left to claim, because it already belongs to you.The leaf embedded in the surface is not decorative. It is evidence: something living, something that grew in this city, absorbed into the work the same way Madrid has been absorbed into you. The cement holds it in place — permanent, unhurried. The collage layers beneath speak of accumulated time, of all the ordinary days that, without announcing themselves, became yours.This is not a dramatic work. It does not shout. It is the painting of a Sunday morning when you wake up and realise, without fanfare, that you are home.
Ruido / Saturación (Noise / Saturation)
Acrylic, gesso, wood base, marble, collage and rope · 72.5 × 91 cmNoise / Saturation marks the beginning of a new series centered on communication — or rather, on its breakdown. This first piece speaks of a mind that never stops: thoughts that circle without landing, words that form but never reach the surface, an internal monologue so dense it becomes suffocating.The black line at the center of the work is the visual manifestation of that spiral. It loops and overlaps, building on itself until it becomes a mass — contained, yet on the verge of collapse. It is at once a scream and a silence: everything happening inside, nothing making it out. The textured background of pinks, mauves and greys pulses beneath it like a life still going on underneath the noise — evidence that there is something there, underneath all of it, waiting to be heard.Ruido / Saturación is not about chaos for its own sake. It's about the exhaustion of carrying a mind that won't let you rest — and the strange loneliness of being full of words that belong to no one but you.
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About
Del Buono works primarily with wood, cement, and acrylic, materials chosen for their weight, resistance, and capacity to hold time. Her process explores the tension between what is left behind and what is slowly appropriated, tracing the interior transformation that displacement provokes.
Her work is organized in series, each structured around specific stages of that process. The series Madrid unfolds across four chapters — Inmigración y Reconstrucción, Soledad Compartida, Resistencia y Ritmo, and Apropiación y Pertenencia — mapping the arc from rupture to belonging. Del Buono's work has been exhibited at Arrival Gallery, Madrid.
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