Christian Rosa, love’s gonna save the day

The first monograph on the compelling young Brazilian painter Christian Rosafeatures a selection of his most recent work in graphite, oil and spray paint.Born in Rio in 1982 and now living and working in Los Angeles, Rosa studied atthe Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Daniel Richter. His current pieces onunprimed, rough, beige canvas are minimal with colorful loops, craquelures,erasures, and carelessly painted bubbles and squares. His extremely reducedrepertoire is reminiscent of Cy Twombly, one of the most enduring Americanabstract painters. Rosa also calls on the Empire of Signs, initially determinedby Roland Barthes for Twombly. In addition to Oscar Murillo and David Ostrowsky,Christian Rosa is considered a rising star in contemporary art today. An exhibitioncatalog out of the CFA Berlin with essay by German writer and curator Roberto Ohrt.