Exhibition
Homage. Arnaldo Roche
14 Mar 2020 – 2 May 2020
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 18:00
Address
- 2525 Michigan Avenue
- Bergamot Station, Suite E2
- Santa Monica
California - 90404
- United States
Roche may be best known for his remarkable Self-Portraits, eight of which are included in Homage, which also includes a remarkable group of still-lives, which combine expressionistic violence with passages of tender, votive beauty.
About
Arnaldo Roche (b. Puerto Rico,1955-2018 ), was one of the most important Latin American artists of his generation. Latin American Masters exhibited Roche’s paintings for two decades. Homage features sixteen of Roche’s paintings and celebrates the legacy of this gifted artist.
Roche may be best known for his remarkable Self-Portraits, eight of which are included in Homage. The subject of self-portraiture allowed Roche to investigate the complexities of identity, the tensions of private self and public persona. Homage also includes a remarkable group of still-lives, which combine expressionistic violence with passages of tender, votive beauty.
In 2005 Roche began painting increasingly monochromatic works in tones of blue. Roche said these paintings "were triggered by the Tsunamis that devastated Indonesia" in 2005. Thereafter, Man’s vulnerability to natural disasters became a persistent theme in Roche’s work. Homage includes several examples of Roche’s monochromatic “Blue Paintings,” including mask-like works, combining gesso, oil, and wood.
Whatever the imagery of an individual work, Roche’s art is unified by his singular vision and densely layered engagement with paint. Roche said it best,” It is the physical act of painting which ratifies the urgency of my ideas.”