Soft Cover
Santiago Parra - Rising Action: Exhibition Catalogue
Publisher: JD Malat
Pages: 38
Pages: 38
£ 24.00
'The actual painting of each piece is something very different from what is commonly conceived as painting, no art academy can prepare you for what it may actually need in order to create art: as I need the unconscious to move the brush, I must find a way to let go and lose the control of consciousness, and this is very difficult and not always achievable.' -Santiago Parra.
A new exhibition at JD Malat Gallery, on Davies Street in Mayfair, welcomes its space to 'Rising Action', focusing on the work of celebrated Colombian artist, Santiago Parra. 'Rising Action' marks the first solo exhibition of Santiago Parra in London, and casts an enlightened and thought-provoking eye on the technique and approach of an artist focusing on the rubric of the subconscious.
Born in 1986 in Bogotá, Colombia, Santiago Parra's canonical work is a declaration of the psychological, beautifully captured in this exercise of visceral transcendence. Parra's work is the search for the purest form of representation, an intimate look into the mind of an artist, attempting to capture the aesthetics of the subconscious, free from the bounds of the compos mentis.
