{{short description|Brazilian visual artist (born 1976)}} {{multiple issues| {{BLP sources|date=October 2015}} {{tone|date=October 2015}} {{advert|date=January 2017}} }} {{Infobox artist | name = Rubem Robierb <!--Rubem Robierb--> | image = Rubem Robierb.jpg | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1976<ref name="MAZ">{{cite web|url=https://www.miamiartzine.com/Features.php?op=Article_Miami+Artist+Rubem+Robierb%3A+Poet%2C+Painter |title=Miami Artist Rubem Robierb: Poet, Painter |publisher=MiamiArtZine }}</ref> | known_for = Sculpting, Photography and Painting | birth_place = Bacabal, Maranhão, Brazil | spouse = {{marriage|Sam Champion|2012}} | movement = Figurative painting | notable_works = ''Climate Meltdown'', ''Dandara'' | website = {{URL|rubemrobierb.com}} }}
'''Rubem Robierb''' (born 1976) is a Miami, Florida-based visual artist, sculptor and photographer.<ref name="luxe">{{cite web|url=https://luxesource.com/miami-beach-artist-rubem-robierb-creates-pop-art-with-soul/#.YGeQruhKg2z |title=A Miami Beach Artist Creates Pop Art With Soul |date=23 April 2019 |publisher=Luxe}}</ref><ref name="abcnews">{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/sculpture-honoring-trans-gender-nonconforming-communities-unveiled-york/story?id=66835463 |title=Sculpture honoring trans, gender nonconforming communities unveiled in New York City |publisher=ABC }}</ref> His works have earned the attention of the media and art critics, been presented in exhibitions, at art galleries and museums around the world.<ref name="amny">{{cite web|url=https://www.amny.com/news/sculpture-dedicated-to-transgender-community-debuts-in-tribeca-park/ |title=Sculpture dedicated to transgender community debuts in Tribeca Park |date=6 November 2019 |publisher=AMNY }}</ref><ref name="arts">{{cite web|url=https://allarts.org/2019/11/dandara-tribeca-art-installation-commemorating-trans-lives/ |title= "Dandars": The New Tribeca Art installation Commemorating Trans Lives|publisher=All-Arts }}</ref><ref name="VP">{{cite web|url=https://vogue.globo.com/Video/Lifestyle/noticia/2019/11/artista-instala-escultura-de-borboleta-em-ny-para-homenagear-dandara-travesti-assassinada-no-brasil.html |title=NY ganha escultura de borboleta em homenagem a Dandara, travesti assassinada no Brasil (Translated from Portuguese via Google translate: NY wins butterfly sculpture in honor of Dandara, transvestite murdered in Brazil) |publisher= Vogue Brazil }}</ref><ref name="theguardian">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/dec/10/art-basel-miami-climate-crisis |title='The idea is that art can help': how Art Basel Miami tackled the climate crisis |work=The Guardian |date=10 December 2019 }}</ref> The artist often uses metaphors to create overflowing images filled with hidden meanings for the viewer. His art is closely associated with the Pop art movement.<ref name="MAZ"/>
== Early life and education ==
Rubem Robierb was born in Bacabal, Maranhão, Brazil. As a child, he developed an early interest in poetry and photography and how images can affect the viewer in an emotional sense. At the age of twenty, Robierb moved to São Paulo to enroll in photography school but instead, he began to do commercial photography for fashion magazines. He later moved to the United States, where he is currently residing and working in his Miami Beach studio.<ref name="MAZ"/> According to ''Luxe'' Magazine, Robierb was inspired by works of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol.<ref name="luxe"/>
== Career ==
Robierb's work first caught the attention of the Art et Partage Association, which in 2005 organized his first solo exhibition, Brezil Autrement (Another Brazil) in Aix-en-Provence, France. Subsequently, his photography work was exhibited in São Paulo, Zurich, Monaco, Paris and Milan galleries.<ref name="MAZ"/> In 2008, Robierb moved to Miami, where he opened a studio in Wynwood. In 2009 he took part in Red Dot (Art Basel) with ''Eros / Thanatos'' series, a group of images in which the artist researched the thin boundary that exists in human sexuality, between ecstasy and suffering.<ref name=Neorika>{{cite web|last1=Hernandez|first1=Pilar|title=Rubem Robierb, Poeta de Imágenes|url=http://neorika.com/rubem-robierb-poeta-de-imagenes/|website=Neorika|publisher=Neorika|accessdate=October 18, 2015}}</ref> In 2011, he exhibited Show Me the Money series at Curators Voice Art Gallery in MIAMI, in which he crushed dollar bills and photographed then against a solid black background, creating deceptive images for viewer's perception by applying Hermann Rorschach's technique of inkblots.<ref name="Miami New Times">{{cite web|last1=Suarez de Jesus|first1=Carlos|title=. Wynwood Art Walk 2012: Crumpled Bills and Sharky Sculptures|url=http://www.miaminewtimes.com/arts/wynwood-art-walk-2012-crumpled-bills-and-shaky-sculptures-6385754|website=Miami New Times|publisher=Miami New Times|accessdate=October 18, 2015}}</ref> In 2012 Robierb had a debut exhibition in New York City art scene at Emmanuel Freming Gallery with Bullet-Fly Effect series, – a set of compositions that fused the body of a butterfly with war materials like bullets or machine guns.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Belonski|first1=Andrew|title=A View of Rubem Robierb's Striking Art|url=http://www.outtraveler.com/exclusives/pictorial/2013/01/11/view-rubem-robierbs-striking-art?page=full|website=Out Traveler|date=11 January 2013 |publisher=Out Traveler|accessdate=October 18, 2015}}</ref> The main theme of the exhibition was criticism of war with allusion to the "butterfly effect" in the Chaos Theory.<ref name=BWW>{{cite web|title=Photo Flash: Sam Champion, Lara Spencer and Josh Elliot Host Rubem Robierb's Bullet Fly Effect Art Show|url=http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwart/article/Photo-Flash-Sam-Champion-Lara-Spencer-and-Josh-Elliot-Host-Rubem-Robierbs-Bullet-Fly-Effect-Art-Show-20121109|website=BWW|publisher=BWW|accessdate=October 18, 2015}}</ref> In 2013, he held the Bullets & Butterflies exhibition at Taglialatella Gallery on the same theme but this time with a series of paintings instead of photographs. In 2015, Robierb was commissioned by the city council of Fort Lauderdale to paint Metamorph-Us, a large mural in the downtown area.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Crinklaw|first1=Don|title=Mural, art space part of larger makeover|url=http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fort-lauderdale/fl-esb-shadehouse-0401-20150413-story.html|website=SunSentinel|publisher=SunSentinel|accessdate=October 18, 2015}}</ref> On November 4, 2019, Robierb's sculpture Dandara (Dream Machines Series) went viral after it was unveiled in Tribeca Park, New York City.<ref name="abcnews"/> The sculpture was named after a 42-year-old transgender woman who two years earlier was brutally attacked and murdered in Brazil. As ''Forbes'' noted, "Robierb dedicated his latest sculpture to the transgender, gender non-conforming and non-binary community “in tribute to its strength and bravery."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/dawnstaceyennis/2019/11/05/this-artist-is-honoring-the-transgender-community-by-giving-new-yorkers-wings/|title=This Artist Is Honoring The Transgender Community By Giving New Yorkers Wings|last=Ennis|first=Dawn|website=Forbes|language=en|access-date=2019-11-28}}</ref> Dandara was featured in several notable media sources.<ref name="amny"/><ref name="arts"/><ref name="VP"/><ref name="Huffpost">{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rubem-robierb-dandara-transgender-wings-sculpture_n_5dbc9aa8e4b0d8b441ced872/|title=Artist Honors Murdered Transgender Woman With Stunning Butterfly Wings|last=Wong|first=Curtis|website=Huffpost|date=5 November 2019 |language=en|access-date=2021-04-15}}</ref> His another artwork, "Climate Meltdown" also gained attention of the art critics and journalists in December 2019, after Robierb created a 36-foot display of "How Dare You" words carved out of two tons of ice that floated in water at a hotel's pool. As a number of sources stated, the artist had been inspired by the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg's notable speech at the UN, and later used the words "How Dare You" for his "Climate Meltdown" artwork. The work was also exhibited at Art Basel Miami Beach.<ref name="theguardian"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fastcompany.com/90439012/greta-thunbergs-how-dare-you-climate-rebuke-literally-just-melted-in-miami |title=Greta Thunberg's 'How Dare You' climate rebuke literally just melted in Miami|date=4 December 2019 |publisher=FastCompany}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.local10.com/news/2019/12/03/miami-art-week-officially-kicks-off/ |title=Miami Art Week complete with sand sculpture traffic jams, melting ice|date=3 December 2019 |publisher=Local10}}</ref>
==Personal life==
Rubem Robierb and Sam Champion, his partner of several years and a weather anchor for WABC-TV, Weather Channel and Good Morning America, married in 2012.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sam Champion Engaged to Be Married, Good Morning America|url=https://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/sam-champion-engaged-to-be-married.html|website=Yahoo! News|publisher=Yahoo! News|accessdate=October 18, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Mandel|first1=Andrea|title='GMA' anchor Sam Champion marries his partner|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2012/12/21/sam-champion-marries-partner-ruben-robierb/1785985/|website=USA Today|publisher=USA Today|accessdate=October 18, 2015}}</ref> Both Robierb and Champion have been strong advocates for equal marriage, actively supporting GLAAD, HRC (human rights campaign), Point Foundation and the LGBTQ Task Force, as well as Power my Learning, Big Brother Big Sisters and Best Buddies among others.<ref name="Huffpost"/><ref>{{cite web|last1=Saunders|first1=Patrick|title=27th annual HRC Dinner 'most successful Atlanta HRC gala ever'|url=http://thegavoice.com/15984/|website=Georgia Voice|date=25 May 2016 |publisher=Georgia Voice}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://abc7chicago.com/localish/butterfly-wings-take-flight-in-nyc-to-honor-transgender-community/5707016/ |title=Sculpture honoring transgender community unveiled in New York City park|newspaper=Abc7 Chicago |date=25 May 2020 |publisher=ABC7News}}</ref>
== Individual exhibitions ==
*2019 "Climate Meltdown", Arte Fundamental Gallery (Miami, USA) *2018 "Metamosphosis", Sagamore Hotel (Miami, USA) *2018 "Metamosphosis", Taglialatella Galleries (New York, USA) *2018 "Metamosphosis", Taglialatella Galleries (Toronto, Canada) *2018 "Metamosphosis", Taglialatella Galleries (Paris, France) *2017 "And The Truth Will Set You Free", Arte Fundamental Gallery (Miami, USA) *2017 "Rubem Robierb New Works", Octavia Gallery (Houston, USA) *2017 "Rubem Robierb New Works", Octavia Gallery (New Orleans, USA) *2016 "Rubem Robierb New Works", Taglialatella Galleries (New York, USA) *2015 Metamorph-Us, Fort Lauderdale, USA 2015 "HeArt" Gallery 212 (Aspen, USA) *2014 "F-Light" (Atlanta, USA) *2013 "Bullets and Butterflies", Taglialatella Galleries (New York, USA) *2012 "Bullet-Fly Effect", Emmanuel Fremin Gallery (New York, USA) *2011 "Show Me the Money", Curators Voice Gallery, Miami, USA *2009 "Eros/Thanatos", Curators Voice Gallery (Miami, USA) *2006 "Brésil Autrement", Institute Alliance Française (São Paulo, Brazil) *2006 "Brésil Autrement", Ilana Gallery (Paris, France) *2006 "Brésil Autrement", The Image House Gallery (Zurich, Switzerland) *2006 "Brésil Autrement", Institute Alliance Française (São Paulo, Brazil) *2005 "Brésil Autrement", IBRIT Instituto Brasile-Italia (Milano, Italy) *2005 "Brésil Autrement", Space D´Art Sextius (Aix-en-Provence, France)
==Awards==
*Eros/Thanatos in Category Fine Art – Nudes *Pop Saints in Category Fine Art – Collage *Show Me the Money in Category Fine Art – Still Life *Bullet-Fly Effect in Category Fine Art – Collage *Casa das Minas in Category People – Culture *Casa das Minas in Category People – Lifestyle *Centauro in Category People – Self-Portrait * 2012 Honorable Mentions, International Photography Awards (Los Angeles, California 2012): * ''Eros/Thanatos'' Serie – Category Fine Art: Nudes * ''Pop Saints'' Serie – Category Fine Art: Collage * ''Show Me the Money'' Serie – Category Fine Art: Still Life * Bullet-Fly Effect Serie – Category Fine Art: Collage * ''Casa das Minas'' Serie – Category People: Culture * ''Casa das Minas'' Serie – Category People: Lifestyle * See Serie – Category Fine Art: Portrait * ''See'' Serie – Category People: Portrait * ''Centauro'' – Category People: Self-Portrait
==References== {{reflist}}
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