Cafécito Neptuno by José Parlá At Art Basel Miami
09/12/2012.
Art Basel Miami [Miami] U.S.A.
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Cafécito Neptuno by José Parlá at The Standard Spa is a recreated havana environment in The Standard Spa, Miami Beach and this local vill be open 24 hours/daily through Art Basel and from 7am to 7pm until closure on January 3, 2013. Two weeks ago we show you the new book JR & José Parlá: Wrinkles of the City, Havana, Cuba, the third publication from Standard Press, examines the practices of both artists and the social impact of their project at the Havana Biennial this past summer.
Cafécito Neptuno by José Parlá at The Standard Spa. Art Basel Miami.
Cafécito Neptuno by José Parlá at The Standard Spa. Art Basel Miami.
Cafécito Neptuno by José Parlá at The Standard Spa. Art Basel Miami.
José Parla.
The first collaboration between JR & Jose Parla,(Wrinkles of the City, Havana, Cuba) yielded a series of outdoor murals in which 25 of Havana's oldest residents—people who lived through the Cuban Revolution—are celebrated in distinct portraits.
Cafécito Neptuno by José Parlá at The Standard Spa. Art Basel Miami.
Coinciding with the celebration of the international fair Art Basel Miami, Jose Parla's work in Cuba is not only recognized with the presentation of the book we mentioned before, also with the work done in collaboration with the Standard Hotel to create Cafecito Neptuno a small space trying to recover some of the memory of the Cuban family out of their land.
Click and look at the new book, JR & Jose Parla,(Wrinkles of the City, Havana, Cuba.
Venue: José Parlá’s Cafecito Neptuno is located at The Standard (40 Island Avenue, Miami Beach).
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José Parlá
José Parlá was born in the United States in 1973 and currently lives and works in Brooklyn. Parlá’s work records his observations of the streets of cities around the world, collecting posters, taking photographs and writings on the wall, turning them into visual diaries he calls cityscapes. Consisting of memories written in calligraphic script layered on fragments of expressionistic and reconstructed city walls, his paintings capture bits and pieces of his encounters. Parlá’s works have appeared in major exhibitions in London, New York, (Bryce Wolkowitz), Los Angeles, (OHWOW) Tokyo, Hong Kong and Paris. His latest projects include a 70-foot-long painting at the Barclays Center, home of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets, a mural painting commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music for the new BAM FISHER Theatre in Brooklyn, the Parlá Frères exhibition with his brother Rey Parlá at the renowned COLETTE in Paris, and an exhibition at SCAD MUSEUM in Savannah, Georgia with fellow alumni Wendy White entitled Performing Painting. Parlá’s 2013 upcoming solo exhibition will be held in the London’s Haunch of Venison gallery.
