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José Parlá « Thread Started on Oct 29, 2008, 11:36am »
His stuff is so cool. I can't get past how nice the lettering is. There was a nice interview posted up on fecal face today.
Some snippets
Seeing your work close up shows me how labor intensive it must be, care to shed some light on the process?
The process in my work is similar to that of the city. The work builds its foundation through memory. In order to create a good painting you must put a lot of history in the piece. With my work the details are within the layers. Each layer tells its own story. I do everything from collage, to using charcoal, oil and acrylic paints, pens, markers, aerosol, etc. I try to step away from myself and imagine the perspective of other people, the look and feel of other environments rather than just my own.
Some of your work and script seems to be Asian influenced. How much has Asian culture influenced your work?
I have traveled to Asia at least twenty times, mostly to Japan and recently, Thailand and China. The influence I do receive from Asia is in terms of how I approach the work, and the way I let some things breath within the space. When one goes to a different culture, time after time, eventually that is going to influence the person. My script has been influenced by these experiences. Calligraphy and script are not the only focus of my work. They are elements and parts of my work that I use to draw with to show lines that carry meaning as symbols embedded with emotion.
Would you say there is still a lot of experimentation in your work?
Yes there is a lot of experimentation. Each new work must be original, must be groundbreaking from my last one. In my show 'Adaptation / Translation', the works have really jumped somewhere new, a different "elsewhere" as I say. I used a lot of new materials and mixed my own paints and chalks and worked with pigments not available in the market that my biologist friend makes for me. I would say my studio is more like a laboratory.
"living in the pools we soon forget about the sea"
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Re: José Parlá « Reply #2 on Oct 31, 2008, 10:38am »
WOW! this is great work, He really takes lettering to a whole new level. You see it up close and you see the lettering but you back away and it looks like a beautiful contemporary piece and they way he uses colors, it gives it an illusion of light and depth.
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Re: José Parlá « Reply #4 on Nov 1, 2008, 7:24pm »
Ian, those are the best photos I've seen of any show... ever! I never noticed Parla incorporated chinese characters! I noticed in your pictures that he has so much texture. Its amazing how much details are missed by the casual pictuers other post.
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Re: José Parlá « Reply #6 on Dec 2, 2008, 2:51am »
I love how Parla's work is so deceiving when you first look at it. As you stare at it longer, those "scribbles" are actually his own version of calligraphic writing. Amazing lines and patterns.
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Re: José Parlá « Reply #8 on Dec 2, 2008, 4:09am »
FUCK! I would give just about anything for one of his paintings! His watercolors, the only work of his in my price range, do very little for me. Oh well. I know one of these will never be a reality, so I'll enjoy them from afar.
f**k! I would give just about anything for one of his paintings! His watercolors, the only work of his in my price range, do very little for me. Oh well. I know one of these will never be a reality, so I'll enjoy them from afar.
Yea, I'm with yea low. Can't see it ever happening for me either.
Re: José Parlá « Reply #13 on Dec 19, 2008, 5:23pm »
Really? I was under the impression that his watercolors went in the $12,000-$14,000 range. I don't think you can find anything under 10K these days from Parla.
Really? I was under the impression that his watercolors went in the $12,000-$14,000 range. I don't think you can find anything under 10K these days from Parla.
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