translated from Spanish: Meet Christian Goñi, the speedcuber and cube muralist Rubik’s

Christian Goñi is a Uruguayan artist. But not a conventional artist. From his twenties, he developed a passion for solving Rubik’s cubes, which led him to make murals portraying famous characters. However, he has in his display case some other achievements besides the recognition of these characters portrayed in his murals: he holds the national record for blindfolded and one handed (one-handed) in Uruguay.
“My passion with buckets began in grade school. My father had written down, in a booklet, all the algorithms to learn and assemble the Rubik’s cube,” Christian explains in an IGTV for Filo.news. “But the strength of what would be the passion for cubes began, more or less, at the age of 20.” Thus, five years later, based on practice and accompanied by his talent, he broke the record blindly and got into the top ten times in South America.In 2015, when he saw that, for the World Cup of San Pablo, some boys had armed the Brazilian flag with 1400 cubes, Christian was lit the lamparita.
 Thus, he began to make murals portraying footballers, musicians, streamers and actors, which led him to rub shoulders with well-known figures like Daddy Yankee.” My idea is to make some mural of ten thousand cubes at some point… or more, if you can,” adds Christian, who usually makes his murals with about a thousand cubes. Despite having achieved unimaginable things, Christian remains ambitious: “I’m excited to take speedcubing to another level. Something more competitive eSports style with sponsors and people interested in seeing the best compete globally.”

Original source in Spanish