Jose Parla the 39 year old American contemporary artist painter who assumes several roles in order to create his work; acting as a historical transcriber, and a visual raconteur. Parla has been interviewed by Sara Roffino for Blouin Artinfo in an article titled ‘28 Questions for Narrative Painter Jose Parla’ in which he states in reference to The Wrinkles of the City project in Havana Cuba “is a unique collaboration project [with JR] that involves many components such as location scouting, photography, and painting. Together we created 20 murals throughout the city of Havana. Each mural is dedicated to an elderly woman or man. The project as a whole pays homage to the years or experience and physical appearance of the wrinkles of people’s faces in comparison with the deteriorated walls of Havana that show their own wrinkles representative of the struggle in life, the joy and smiling, all of the layers of the memories in their lives. JR and I both randomly met people in Havana by walking the neighborhoods and asking them to participate in our art project... We collaborated on the composition of the pictures on the murals and later pasted them the size of buildings through Havana while I later painted them by layering transparencies of color on the pictures as well as incorporated my calligraphic style, the stories of each person into the composition of each painting. This project began interacting with the public as soon as we started to work in front of everyone. Many people wanted to talk and ask questions and to be involved in the project. In Cuba there is no advertisement and in the 54 years since the revolution, most of the images you see in the city are of political icons…. For us to make 20 murals of random people was a big deal for people there…”  Inspired by Sara Roffino, Blouin Artinfo ow.ly/l5rQb Image source Nuart ow.ly/l5rFQ Wrinkles of the City project in Cuba (June 6 2013)

Jose Parla the 39 year old American contemporary artist painter who assumes several roles in order to create his work; acting as a historical transcriber, and a visual raconteur. Parla has been interviewed by Sara Roffino for Blouin Artinfo in an article titled ‘28 Questions for Narrative Painter Jose Parla’ in which he states in reference to The Wrinkles of the City project in Havana Cuba “is a unique collaboration project [with JR] that involves many components such as location scouting, photography, and painting. Together we created 20 murals throughout the city of Havana. Each mural is dedicated to an elderly woman or man. The project as a whole pays homage to the years or experience and physical appearance of the wrinkles of people’s faces in comparison with the deteriorated walls of Havana that show their own wrinkles representative of the struggle in life, the joy and smiling, all of the layers of the memories in their lives. JR and I both randomly met people in Havana by walking the neighborhoods and asking them to participate in our art project… We collaborated on the composition of the pictures on the murals and later pasted them the size of buildings through Havana while I later painted them by layering transparencies of color on the pictures as well as incorporated my calligraphic style, the stories of each person into the composition of each painting. This project began interacting with the public as soon as we started to work in front of everyone. Many people wanted to talk and ask questions and to be involved in the project. In Cuba there is no advertisement and in the 54 years since the revolution, most of the images you see in the city are of political icons…. For us to make 20 murals of random people was a big deal for people there…”

 

Inspired by Sara Roffino, Blouin Artinfo ow.ly/l5rQb Image source Nuart ow.ly/l5rFQ