"RUIDO" Painting

Denny Sarserio (Cuba, 1994) is a visual artist whose work moves through the intersections of the autobiographical, the social, and the political. His pictorial practice—centered primarily on oil on canvas in medium and large formats—arises from a sustained reflection on art’s power as a language of resistance, memory, and collective transformation.
Born in Sagua la Grande, a small town in Cuba, Sarserio discovered painting during childhood while facing a hip condition that limited his mobility. That experience became the origin of a profound sensibility toward introspection and the emotional depth of observation.
He began his artistic formation under the guidance of the renowned Cuban painter and cartoonist Cecilio Avilés, a central figure in Cuban visual culture. At fifteen, he emigrated with his family to the United States, where his practice evolved toward a deep engagement with socially and politically charged art. He found resonance with the ideals of David Alfaro Siqueiros, Diego Rivera, and the symbolic force of Pablo Picasso’s Cubism.
Influenced by the Latin American avant-garde and the idea of art as a public good, Sarserio conceives painting as a tool for democratization and dialogue. His work becomes a meeting ground between personal experience and collective tension—a space that questions memory, identity, and the individual’s place within history.
In his paintings, the pictorial gesture becomes an act of resistance and existential affirmation. Every stroke and every fragment of color represents a search to reconfigure the world through sensitivity, revealing art’s enduring capacity to stir, awaken, and move human consciousness.