(Maracaibo, 1978) is a Venezuelan artist who defines himself as belonging to a long tradition of amateur painters. Christian generates rhythms that make his brush a drumstick that taps upon the tension of the frame and grants a glimpse of an emotive, explosive pulse. As Juan Pablo Garza points out, “Christian is a very prolific artist. He is always processing and translating into his work a world of information that he accumulates. His subjects of interest vary from antique documents to newspaper cuttings, landscapes, baseball cards, photography collections, album covers, book covers, domestic objects, ships, historical encyclopedias, portraits, airplanes, soccer matches: a truly long list...One of the things that most interests me about Christian’s work is the fact that it is very straightforward. It does not really ask for too many explanations or justifications. In any case, sometimes, in order to read his work, you only need a little bit of context.”[1] We can find this context as we turn the pages of his book Cuaderno Caribe.[2] There, the maximum is on display, and his interests move in visions and dimensions that are as all-encompassing as they are intimate, from a window and a horizon, the birds, the trees, the buildings that fill them, to the furniture, the drawers, the bookshelves, the armoires and all that we keep and store in them—all objects become gestures that comprise the ID card of an artist who touches and mixes through painting.
From this place of concentrated action and atomized details, we spoke about what motivates his daily work, his pictorial language, the contexts and the paths of wonder that reach the canvas and overflow.