His vibrant colors and mythical figures demonstrate an expressive freedom where he is not limited by anatomical rules. Since the age of six, Antonio has been dedicated to painting, and this practice has become his means of self-knowledge and exploring the world, reflecting not only his identity but also a unique and personal perspective that he continues to share through his significant museum exhibitions
Antonio Kushnir’s exhibition Choro (Crying) at the Nitéroi Museum of Modern Art, comprised of paintings produced between 2019 and 2022, demonstrates his use of art as a means to narrate the present and create “personal mythologies”, as the artist states, allegories of his experience of the present. Power, joy, life, death, nature, technology, all figure prominently in his work. Coinciding with the Covid-19 pandemic, several paintings address the isolation, angst and problematic relationship with technology that many of us developed during the confinements.