El Diestro, Oviedo

The urban sculpture known as El diestro, located on Palacio Valdés Street in the city of Oviedo, Principality of Asturias, Spain, is one of more than a hundred sculptures that adorn the streets of the aforementioned Spanish city.

The urban landscape of this city is adorned by sculptural works, generally commemorative monuments dedicated to important people at first, and more purely artistic since the late twentieth century.

The sculpture, made in bronze, is the work of Miguel Berrocal, and is dated 1972, although it was installed in 1998. It is the torso of a bullfighter and is part of a series made by Miguel Berrocal, an artist who is very fond of the world of bullfighting. It presents a great volume with exaggeratedly rounded forms, with exquisite polishing of the material and rotundity of the finishes.