DeKalb Avenue Station

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JOSÉ PARLÁ (B. 1973)
DeKalb Avenue Station
signed with artist signature, signed again and titled 'DeKalb Avenue Station (Diptych) P. I © JOSÉ PARLÁ' (on the reverse of the left panel); titled and inscribed again 'DeKalb Avenue Station (Diptych) P. II' (on the reverse of the right panel)
acrylic, oil, enamel, ink, printed paper collage, and plaster on canvas (diptych)
each: 182.9 x 182.9 cm. (72 x 72 in.) (2)
overall: 182.9 x 365.8 cm. (72 x 144 in.)
Executed in 2011

Provenance

Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature

M. Betancourt, I. Brielmaier, and G. Tate (ed.), José Parlá: Walls, Diaries, and Paintings, exh. cat., New York, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, 2011 (illustrated, p. 10).

Exhibited

New York, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, José Parlá: Walls, Diaries, and Paintings, March - April 2011.
New York, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, José Parlá: IN MEDIAS RES, September - October 2014.

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Lot Essay

“Cities are unnatural environments - they are built, they develop. In them human action is negentropic: it acts to redo everything time undoes using a process, like the layering of a pearl, which entombs decay within a matrix of renewal. It is a mirror image of the disorganization common to all types of entropy. José Parla's alchemy of public space transplanted to the gallery makes these connections between the layering of time and the decay those layers encapsulate explicitly a spectacular experience.” - Michael Betancourt

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