Story

"My art is an emotional love story. Sharing this relationship with the world is my true work of art."

When Romulo Feliciano Kuranyi begins to draw, he becomes a poet, as it were. His hand seems to take on a life of its own. The many dots and lines intertwine more and more and gradually begin to tell a colorful story. It is about his roots in Brazil, different cultures and the abundance of human encounters that have shaped him since his childhood. Almost all the emotions that man is capable of feeling are close together here and as you take a step back, you witness how the many individual elements merge and transform into a powerful unity: Here and Now. As the work of art speaks, it seems to have come alive itself. Afterwards one feels a bit richer. Has seen familiar things and yet experienced something completely new. A contradiction? You bet it is. Kuranyi's works are fundamentally contradictory, playful and direct at the same time. Equally unselfconscious and mature. Simple and interwoven. The formal language of indigenous peoples meets Pop Art à la Matisse. Contrasts that captivate the eye because they show how life really is: unambiguous, colorful, lively, tangled - a crystal-clear contradiction.

Whether with ink, acrylic or paint pen - Kuranyi's handwriting is unmistakable. Anyone who has seen it once will recognize it again and again. He discovered his passion for art at an early age. As the son of an artist born in paris and a brazilian writer, he was shaped by the various influences of his multicultural family and their artistic creations from childhood onwards. His early encounters with indigenous peoples fascinated him deeply and are always expressed in his work.

Kuranyi tells his story in many places: canvases, wall surfaces, wood, aluminum, leather or as a commissioned work on a 3.5 million Bugatti with 1,500 horsepower - probably the fastest canvas in the world. Thus, Kuranyi's artworks, on public display since 2013, are as diverse as life itself. Kuranyi made his debut in 2013 at the Carousel de Louvre in Paris. In 2017 he exhibited some of his works together alongside artists such as Wilm Delvoye and Stephan Balkenhol at the PEACE LOVE AND LIGHT exhibition in Frankfurt am Main. The Museum Villa Seiz has shown two of his works at the exhibition TRIBUTE TO BOB DYLAN in Schwäbisch Gmünd in 2021. Kuranyi was also represented in OutletCity Metzingen as part of the Stuttgart-based artist collective PLATTFORM11. As part of the Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2021 in Berlin, Kuranyi designed the EY Audience Award in front of the camera. For STABILO International GmBH he can be seen throughout Europe in the advertising campaign for the new acrylic marker STABILO FREE since 2021.

Romulo Feliciano Kuranyi was born on March 16, 1989, in Petropolis, Brazil, and now lives with his family in Stuttgart.