Artist José Parlá discuss his latest solo museum exhibition 'Homecoming' at the Pérez Art Museum Miami.
Museum Miami, artist José Parlá was surprised to find himself not in Miami but inside his Brooklyn studio.
“This exhibition is not so much about this traditional homecoming, where you leave and come back. It’s really a question about our times,” he says. “There’s this massive connection that goes beyond what the art is about. It’s so much more, it’s about humanity,” he says. “Abstraction can allow the viewer to think about reality beyond what we think reality is. And abstraction creates this very universal language. So a lot of the titles really deal with those themes.”Asked about the relationship between the titles and the visual image, Parlá says, “I have to take you back to when I came out of the hospital in June of 2021.
Parlá began making artwork again while still in the hospital, healing through his work and listening to music. Nurses noticed that his pain was lower when listening to music. “As a process of getting my arms to work — I was badly atrophied, so the doctor held my hands so I could hold the brush and paint, and that ignited the feeling of being a painter, and that brought more memories,” he says.
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