Rattler Magazine

Mar 8

Mar 8 Bubins: Unconventional Art

Gregorio Müller, aka Bubins, is a Swiss artist who lives and works between Lugano and London. Born in 1992, he has developed his own unique and distinctive style ranging from pop art to street art and focusing on continuous experimentation with new techniques and visual applications in a market already saturated with copies of copies. His background of university studies in the field of communication and marketing are clearly visible through the aesthetics of his works with their clear advertising imprinting and strong emotional impact. These, which are nothing more than the result and the very testimonies of an artistic passion born at an early age, refined over the course of time, matured and officially materialized in 2021 with the opening of his first studio in Lugano, Switzerland. Constant references to pop culture and the contradictions of modern society are his interpretative lifeline and an integral part of his portfolio, which is summed up in an irreverent cynicism and an unsettling irony with a bitter taste. Its aim is indeed to make the interlocutor wake up and think. After all, is this not the ultimate purpose of art?

Bubins in his Lugano Atelier Photo Credit: Davide Giordano/Tio.ch

Bubins' journey began a few years ago with the now classic "Blue Series" that kicked off everything else and that showed the world his very personal approach to art, characterized by an unconventional creative process poised between classic and modern techniques, starting from a pencil sketch on sheet to the final acrylic print. Since then, Bubins’ hunger for creativity made new projects such as the “Fries Series” possible, reaching the present day where the current catalogue includes a wide range of ironic and bold stencils as communicative tools to deliver social and critical messages, humorous sculptures and intriguing visual experiments like “The Ugly Truth”. In the end, his driving force always remains the observation of human nature and the search for new ways to represent it: “… human nature is undoubtedly curious: we like anything that can be addictive, both physical and psychological, in a slow and inexorable self-destructive spiral.”