Christian Rosa’s first presentation at KUBIKGALLERY will gather a set of experimental works from 2018-2022 that were never exhibited.

The exhibition “To Paint is to Love again” by Christian Rosa will open on July 5th, at 5PM at KUBIKGALLERY in Porto and there will be an extension of this show at Espaço Museológico “Museu do Arroz” at Comporta that will open the next day, July 6th at 6PM.

Christian Rosa (1982) is a Brazilian-born contemporary painter. Rosa's improvisational marks—made using pencil, spray paint, and oil paint—are applied to unprimed canvas in isolated patches of color to create lyrical semi-abstract narratives with such playful titles as ‘God Hope Coke Broke’, ‘This is Barely Noble’, and ‘Tales of a Slippery Hot Dog’. Indebted to the works of both Cy Twombly and Joan Miró, Rosa's works are completed in a primary color palette with long pencil marks flitting around the painted space. In his works made after 2016, the artist has painted the full area of canvas, which appear as though details of his earlier works have been captured in close up. Rosa was raised in Vienna, Austria. The artist worked in photography and film before painting, and went on to study under German painter Daniel Richter at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Rosa has exhibited at White Cube's booth at Frieze New York, Saatchi Gallery in London, the Athens Biennale. The artist lives and works between Los Angeles, CA and Vienna, Austria.