On Thursday, January 28th , 2021, PIASA will present as part of its first (very) Contemporary Art auction, several works of art by various sculptors, painters and visual artists of the current art scene including a painting by Christian Rosa.
Christian Rosa ( born 1982, Rio de Janeiro) belongs to a generation of artists whose work continues to explore the boundaries of abstract art. The artist sees his approach as a process of discovery through which he learns by deconstructing the pictorial surface.
His work feeds on errors, displaced, reappropriated and reconfigured in order to explore the history of painting and the notion of failure as a conceptual guide. Christian Rosa's works are bare, minimal but often contain indefinable figurative elements. They exist between representation and abstraction of elements of faces, animals, movements that appear and reappear, reduced most of the time to a few touches of paint. These abstract compositions are capable of conveying universal concepts without being reduced to a narrative or literal interpretation.
Christian Rosa (Born 1982)
Take it on the top!, 2014
Estimate: 25000 / 35000 €
Christian Rosa studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under the mentorship of Daniel Richter, from which he graduated in 2012. He is the recipient of the Walter Koschatzky Art Prize in 2011. In addition to her work as a painter, Rosa organizes exhibitions, screenings and editions. He spends most of his time in California where he offers a residency program.
His solo exhibitions include : Love's Gonna Save the Day, CFA, Berlin (2013); The Shits and the Seven Dwarfs, Ibid. Los Angeles (2013); Kunstverein Heilbronn, Germany (2015); White Cube, London (2015); White Cube, Sao Paulo (2015) and Galerie Meyer Kainer (2016). Group exhibitions include: Circle Culture Gallery, Berlin; ReMap, Athens (2013); Momenta: Venice Biennale (2013); Pangaea: New Art from Africa and Latin America, The Saatchi Gallery, London (2014) and Almine Reich Gallery (2015).
