"THE PARADE ENDS"| PIKI MENDIZABAL

JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY presents The Parade Ends, the debut solo exhibition of Cuban born artist Piki Mendizabal. Presently working in New Orleans, Louisiana the artist has created a series
of new paintings that reflect on the life he once lived in Cuba, memories of which have become melded with his current life in
New Orleans. We see evidence of this coexistence in his paintings of people on streetcars, in which he links his memories of the
daily rhythm of life in Cuba with a setting that the people of New Orleans are intimately familiar.

Piki says this of his work:

The title of this exhibition was taken from a poem of the same name “The Parade Ends” by Cuban writer and poet Reinaldo
Arenas. The exhibition centers around the human drama of life: to be born, to live, to love, and to die. Using vehicles of
transportation as a stage, the characters meet in a constant state of struggle.
My Cuban heritage and the fact that I live far from my birth country compels me to focus specifically on all of the human drama
that transpires in the daily rhythm of life in Cuba. I rely on a range of dark colors in order to achieve greater contrasts of light
and, at the same time, to create greater drama within the figures.

Jonathan Ferrara Gallery

400A Julia St.

January 28 – March 13, 2020

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