JOSÉ PARLÁ
La Habana Sunset, 2024
22.75 x 40 inches
Archival pigment print on Somerset mounted on DIBOND
Limited edition of 25 with 6AP + 1PP
Hand-embellished, signed and numbered by the artist
$6,800 framed in white wood
La Habana Sunset features a landscape wherein a textured, gestural sky is interwoven with a unique code of writing that reveals a new horizon line. Created as part of a new series of large-scale paintings titled Ciclos: Blooms of Mold, the work visually recalls underground mycelium formations. These complex and mysterious fungi communication networks interconnect everything on Earth through a web of life. As symbolic as it is abstract, the composition is inspired equally by Parlá's youth as a Cuban American in Miami during the 1980s, his world travels, his almost fatal battle with COVID-19 in 2021—during which he entered a three-month-long coma, and experienced dreams that were later translated into vivid depictions that evoke natural landscapes—and his survival.
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