Christian Rosa (b. 1982)
Christian Rosa (b. 1982)

Untitled

Details
Christian Rosa (b. 1982)
Untitled
signed and dated ‘Christian Rosa 2014’ (on reverse)
charcoal, oil stick, oil and graphite on canvas
73 x 48 in. (185.4 x 121.9 cm.)
Executed in 2014.
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner

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Lot Essay

“With Rosa, it's as though all the areas of smeared or trodden-on paint have receded back into their discrete areas of the canvas. They are linked together not through commingling, but instead as a kind of Rube Goldberg machine, where the blue ball falls down the hole, rolls around the grey track, knocks over the yellow rectangle, which falls into the brown cup. And like a Rube Goldberg device, we have a complicated visual set of interrelated and sequential occurrences that lead to something in the end very simple, which is here perhaps a light bulb of visual pleasure turning on.”
- Kathy Grayson, Catch Up With Rising Star Christian Rosa, ArtNet, 2014.

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