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Born in Miami of Cuban parents artist José Parlá's vibrant works explore the multi-layered histories of cities and urban environments; his paintings and site-specific installations are created both in his large carriage house studio and also works outside throughout city surfaces. His expressive painting style and layers of ephemera and found objects combined with calligraphic abstraction have a lyrical feel to them, are uniquely his. This exhibition presents new paintings, works on paper, photographs and sculptures throughout our three gallery spaces. Parla's work acts as a record of his journeys through streets that he navigates, using a map of one city to direct you through another. He documents his city walks through photographs as well as at times collecting detritus from the streets, once back in the studio they are used to build the composition of each painting. Language and writing are key themes within Parlá's work. He often incorporates layers of text from street posters he collects while traveling. His own stylized calligraphy is worked into and on the surface of each painting, and although it is always partially obscured and indecipherable, is a personal narrative of his experiences and a record of stories he discovers on his various journeys. Parla's paintings are made in reaction to the urban environment; they are impressions of what we are surrounded by, a response to the energy that courses through every city. Parla brings beauty to ruggedness and decay, and a language of his very own to what he sees and feels around him. José Parlá has exhibited internationally, including major shows in London, New York, Paris and Havana. In 2012 he exhibited at the 11th Havana Biennial, Cuba, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, and was added to the collection of the British Museum.
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Broken Language {SIGNED - 2012 1ST EDITION - FINE]
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Haunch of Venison, 2012
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. 2012, Haunch of Venison. Hardcover in pictorial boards. 86 pages with 48 color images throughout (many double page, including one three-page gatefold). Includes an interview with Jose Parla (text in english). SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Jose Parla on the fep. BOOK CONDITION: Fine; a solid, tight, clean copy. SIGNED José Parlá is a critically acclaimed, multidisciplinary artist working in painting, large-scale murals, photography, video and sculpture. He started painting in the early 1980s, as a street artist in Miami, and went to study at Miami Dade Community College, New World School of the Arts and Savannah College of Art & Design. Parlá's work has been exhibited at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Istanbul'74, Istanbul; SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase; National YoungArts Foundation, Miami; Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson College, Davidson; and the Havana Biennial, Havana, among others. Parlá's work is in several public collections including the British Museum, London; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; POLA Museum of Art, Hakone; and the National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana. Permanent Public Arts projects include commissions by the University of Texas, Austin; One World Trade Center for his monumental mural painting, ONE: Union of the Senses, the largest painting of its kind in New York City, in the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere; Barclays Center, New York; Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York; André Balazs' Chiltern Firehouse, London; North Carolina State University's Hunt Library by Snřhetta; and at Concord City Place, Toronto. Signed. Seller Inventory # 3893