José Parlá: Segmented Realities
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45,00€
About
This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition José Parlá: Segmented Realities at the High Museum of Art in conversation with the retrospective of Wifedo Lam's, Imagining New Worlds, February 14th - May 24, 2015
Published in 2015 by High Museum of Art & Damiani Editore
Editorial: José Parlá
Essay Author: Michael Rooks
José Parlá (b.1973 to Cuban parents in Miami) is an American artist who works in Brooklyn. His work involves painting (in the studio and on walls), photography, video and sculpture. He began painting walls in Miami in the 1980s and studied at Miami Dade Community College, the New World School of the Arts and the Savannah College of Art & Design. Parlá is also known for his community involvement as co-founder of Wide Awakes. His works have been exhibited in many countries.
He creates paintings and multidisciplinary works based on his interest in hybrid forms of abstraction. He draws inspiration from various mediums including music, calligraphy, dance, and the decay of urban architecture and advertisements. His works poetically challenge ideas about language, politics, identity, and how we define places and spaces. Parlá’s relationship with mark-making is physical and textural, incorporating the body’s gestures into a painterly stream of consciousness composed of areas of addition, erasure, and layering that challenges the status quo of visual culture.
Product details
25 x 29.9 cm
