Patrick Rubinstein "Marilyn is so Wiggly"

Patrick Rubinstein “Marilyn is so Wiggly”

May 21, 2021/Robin Rile

Patrick Rubinstein's "Marilyn is so Wiggly" mixed media painting

Patrick Rubinstein is a French Pop artist born in 1960. He currently works and lives in Paris.

Through an innovative process, the artist creates his pieces in three dimensions, to see several works in one. Three different points of view depend on the angle of the viewer. Opt Art (or optical art) genre that plays with our perceptions and is a style that experienced a meteoric rise in the 1960s. Whereas Victor Vasarely conceived space by transforming architecture, Patrick Rubinstein plays with figurative. He re-appropriates icons of pop culture and presents them in different facets. He develops a kinetic universe from multiple influences, from the Renaissance to Street Art through Pop Art or surrealism. At his hand, the images come alive. Patrick Rubinstein has worked with Philippe Starck and his works are presented all over the world. In 2013, only five years after selling his first work to Durot, he is ranked 89th in the top 100 of the top rated French artists.