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December 04, 2006
Events. Jose Parla's Cityscapes
Events. Jose Parla's Cityscapes: On December 6 catch Jose Parla at Art Basel in Miami. When we first saw Parla's work, it was the striking color balance and effortless motion that really drew us in. You don't want to miss this event.
Here's a little info about the artist: "Born in Miami in 1973 into a family of Cuban exiles, José Parlá moved to Puerto Rico at a very early age before returning to Miami again when he was nine. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, and only recently traveled to Cuba for the first time. His life, like his work, is therefore at once extremely particular and generally reflective of the wanderings of today's urban populations. In the context of these migrations and upheavals, Parlá is concerned with the way that cities function as palimpsests, upon which the experiences of those who pass through them are materially inscribed in decay, in writing, in the well-worn paths of their inhabitants. Parlá's work attempts to extract and synthesize fragments of these urban environments in flux and reproduce them using the materials and methods of architectural construction: cement, wood, vinyl as well as those of traditional art like paper, paint, powdered dye, wax, and ink."
Read more about Jose Parla and the Cityscapes installation [Here]
Posted by taj at December 4, 2006 01:31 AM