Forms Of Transcendence: The Art Of Roger Wagner (visibilia)

The 4th volume in the Visibilia series presents the art of Roger Wagner: "Faith is indeed the bedrock of Wagner's painting. The expression of this faith places his work firmly in the long tradition of Christian art, whose task was never less than evangelical. To those for whom such an art is by nature imitative and reactionary, the reply is clear; these are new images, their symmetries and symbolic order gentle admonitions of the possibility of beauty, their complexity beyond the scope of abstraction in their semantic and symbolic wealth. They are both a record of the world Wagner has seen and of the role of faith in its construction." CHRIS MILLER