Ruben Cukier
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Ruben Cukier (°1964, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an artist who mainly works with painting. With a conceptual approach, Cukier tries to approach a wide scale of subjects in a multi-layered way, likes to involve the viewer in a way that is sometimes physical and believes in the idea of function following form in a work.
His paintings sometimes radiate a cold and latent violence. At times, disconcerting beauty emerges. The inherent visual seductiveness, along with the conciseness of the exhibitions, further complicates the reception of their manifold layers of meaning. By demonstrating the omnipresent lingering of a ‘corporate world’, he seduces the viewer into a world of ongoing equilibrium and the interval that articulates the stream of daily events. Moments are depicted that only exist to punctuate the human drama in order to clarify our existence and to find poetic meaning in everyday life.
His works directly respond to the surrounding environment and uses everyday experiences from the artist as a starting point. Often these are framed instances that would go unnoticed in their original context. By emphasising aesthetics, he investigates the dynamics of landscape, including the manipulation of its effects and the limits of spectacle based on our assumptions of what landscape means to us. Rather than presenting a factual reality, an illusion is fabricated to conjure the realms of our imagination.
His works demonstrate how life extends beyond its own subjective limits and often tells a story about the effects of global cultural interaction over the latter half of the twentieth century. It challenges the binaries we continually reconstruct between Self and Other, between our own ‘cannibal’ and ‘civilized’ selves. By exploring the concept of landscape in a nostalgic way, his works references post-colonial theory as well as the avant-garde or the post-modern and the left-wing democratic movement as a form of resistance against the logic of the capitalist market system.
His works establish a link between the landscape’s reality and that imagined by its conceiver. These works focus on concrete questions that determine our existence. Ruben Cukier currently lives and works in Adamit, Israel.
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2020-2021 • Muestra Espacio MULTIARTE en SIGEN - Buenos Aires - Argentina • RESIDENCE GALLERY BIARRITZ France • A MatosCar art show Portugal 2018-2019 • International Art Exhibition of Surrealism Now 2019 • Marinha Grande, Portugal 2014-2017 • Elysium Gallery - UK • Gallery less than a thousand - Tel Aviv - Israel 2011 • Argentina – Buenos Aires - “Amores y Pasiones” Artistas de Arte del Mundo en La Manzana de las luces. • Argentina – Buenos Aires - “Mixturas, El Arte, Las Colectividades y sus Artistas” – Centro Cultural Recoleta. • USA - “Miami Beach Sister Cities International Art Exhibition” Miami Beach Art Deco Welcome Center • Gallery – Florida. • Argentina – Muestra Itinerante "Abuso, Trata y Tráfico=Conciencia + Libertad" • Argentina – Buenos Aires – Galeria Alicia Brandy - Concurso Pintura Figurativa. 2010 • Israel - Jerusalem - "Tree of Knowledge" - Hadassah Art Gallery. • Argentina Buenos Aires - Visual Arts Exhibition “Arte del mundo” in the 1st International Congress ANUA - "200 Years Later." ADOLESCENTS AND YOUTH - 1 to November 8, 2010. • Argentina - Buenos Aires – “Artroad” - CONVENTION CENTER "LE DOME, Sofitel CARDALES RESERVE. • Germany - Berlin - Abnormal Gallery. • Argentina - Buenos Aires – "Southern Lights" at the Bicentennial in the Brazilian Studies Center Foundation. • Argentina - Buenos Aires – "Southern Lights at the Bicentennial" in stock market Of Buenos Aires 2009 • Argentina - Entre Ríos -“Arte del Mundo” in the Sun Hotel & Casino Victoria. • Israel - Haifa - Group exhibition - Castra Cultural Center • Italy - Naples – Group exhibition "ventiperventi". • Argentina - Buenos Aires - Arteclásica 2009. • Germany – Berlin - Abnormals Gallery – 05.12.2009 to 13.01.2010. 2008 • Argentina - Buenos Aires - Group exhibition at Galeria de las Naciones • Argentina - Buenos Aires - "Art and Emerging Artists" Espacio Ponce Boscarino. • Israel - Haifa - Autumn Salon - Congress Center. • Argentina - Buenos Aires - Arteclasica 2008. • Argentina - Buenos Aires - "Values and Principles of Art" exhibition the Senate of Argentina. • Argentina - Buenos Aires - Collective exhibition at Gallery Büchler Sanzi. • Argentina - Buenos Aires - "Art and Emerging Artists' Atelier Ponce Boscarino. 2007 • Israel –Jerusalem - Group exhibition - Yellow Submarine gallery. • Argentina - Buenos Aires - Art exhibition in the Senate of Argentina. • Israel - Caesarea - Group exhibition – “Nights of Caesarea”. • Israel – Haifa - Group exhibition -International Convention Center in Haifa. 2006 • Germany - Berlin- gallery Twenty-four.•Argentina - Buenos Aires - First prize in the category Digital Art in the Cultural Center exhibit "La grieta". 2004 • Argentina - Buenos Aires - Gallery Espacio 10. Exhibitions 2020-2021 Muestra Espacio MULTIARTE en SIGEN - Buenos Aires - Argentina RESIDENCE GALLERY BIARRITZ France A MatosCar art show Portugal 2018-2019 International Art Exhibition of Surrealism Now 2019 Marinha Grande, Portugal 2014-2017 Elysium Gallery - UK Gallery less than a thousand - Tel Aviv - Israel 2011 Argentina – Buenos Aires - “Amores y Pasiones” Artistas de Arte del Mundo en La Manzana de las luces. Argentina – Buenos Aires - “Mixturas, El Arte, Las Colectividades y sus Artistas” – Centro Cultural Recoleta. USA - “Miami Beach Sister Cities International Art Exhibition” Miami Beach Art Deco Welcome Center Gallery – Florida. Argentina – Muestra Itinerante "Abuso, Trata y Tráfico=Conciencia + Libertad" Argentina – Buenos Aires – Galeria Alicia Brandy - Concurso Pintura Figurativa. 2010 Israel - Jerusalem - "Tree of Knowledge" - Hadassah Art Gallery. Argentina Buenos Aires - Visual Arts Exhibition “Arte del mundo” in the 1st International Congress ANUA - "200 Years Later." ADOLESCENTS AND YOUTH - 1 to November 8, 2010. Argentina - Buenos Aires – “Artroad” - CONVENTION CENTER "LE DOME, Sofitel CARDALES RESERVE. Germany - Berlin - Abnormal Gallery. Argentina - Buenos Aires – "Southern Lights" at the Bicentennial in the Brazilian Studies Center Foundation. Argentina - Buenos Aires – "Southern Lights at the Bicentennial" in stock market Of Buenos Aires 2009 Argentina - Entre Ríos -“Arte del Mundo” in the Sun Hotel & Casino Victoria. Israel - Haifa - Group exhibition - Castra Cultural Center Italy - Naples – Group exhibition "ventiperventi". Argentina - Buenos Aires - Arteclásica 2009. Germany – Berlin - Abnormals Gallery – 05.12.2009 to 13.01.2010. 2008 Argentina - Buenos Aires - Group exhibition at Galeria de las Naciones Argentina - Buenos Aires - "Art and Emerging Artists" Espacio Ponce Boscarino. Israel - Haifa - Autumn Salon - Congress Center. Argentina - Buenos Aires - Arteclasica 2008. Argentina - Buenos Aires - "Values and Principles of Art" exhibition the Senate of Argentina. Argentina - Buenos Aires - Collective exhibition at Gallery Büchler Sanzi. Argentina - Buenos Aires - "Art and Emerging Artists' Atelier Ponce Boscarino. 2007 Israel –Jerusalem - Group exhibition - Yellow Submarine gallery. Argentina - Buenos Aires - Art exhibition in the Senate of Argentina. Israel - Caesarea - Group exhibition – “Nights of Caesarea”. Israel – Haifa - Group exhibition -International Convention Center in Haifa. 2006 Germany - Berlin- gallery Twenty-four.•Argentina - Buenos Aires - First prize in the category Digital Art in the Cultural Center exhibit "La grieta". 2004 Argentina - Buenos Aires - Gallery Espacio 10.