Adding to the display of Latin American art in London at the Lloyds Club, the White Cube Gallery in St James has the first exhibition in London by the Argentinian artist Christian Roso. Christian was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1982 and now lives and works in Vienna and Los Angeles. His clean restrained work displays links back to Miro and Picasso in Spain and to Wilfredo Lam in Cuba, with his own unique interpretation and mixture of media. He is a master of using the minimum of brushstrokes to create an impression or effect, the interpretation of which is left to the individual viewer, though his black and white work seems to consistently have a pair of eyes that are looking out at the viewer from the black swirling curves. It is as if his work is specifically challenging the individual viewer to form his or her own view of the interpretation, from work that, for such a young artist, shows incredible maturity and deserves to be better known.
Ian Caldwell
"The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul."
(Thomas Moore)
To be an architect means having a wide range of interests - architecture, art and creativity in all its variety of forms, sustainability, science and innovation. The greatest interest is often where these different worlds overlap and collide - that is when something imaginative often occurs that pushes us all forward to another place