The Artistic Journey of Ruben Cukier
Born and raised in Buenos Aires in 1964, Ruben Cukier chooses colors and shades that reveal a yearning for a less superficial, less deceptive reality. His forms, dimensions, and colors give shape to dreams and nightmares, even alluding to a notion of hope. Humor is used to reflect fears, habits, and desires that most of us deny and suppress deep within. The dictionary defines surrealism as a style of art and literature, stressing the subconscious or non-rational significance of imagery arrived at by automatism or the exploitation of chance effects and unexpected juxtapositions. Ruben Cukier, a surrealist painter born and raised in politically violent Buenos Aires, is a member of an illustrious roster of artists whose vivid imagination and fantasy inform their art-making.
