Alvaro Henriquez-Parra
b. 1993
Alvaro Henriquez-Parra is a Venezuelan artist based in Miami, Fl, USA. His works have almost always begun as spontaneous exercises aiming to uncover recurring, unarticulated ideas. It is after this exploration that a design insinuates itself, and the emerged concept is further defined.
Due to this process, themes and concepts vary, but at the core of his works remains this clash of spontaneous abstraction and rigid design.
The interplay between abstraction and the empirical is a fundamental concept in his work because of the postmodern age we live in, where the saturated symbols of the information age (the empirical) often alienates us from our essence and true nature (the abstract).
Celebrities, letters, words, and Pop Art elements are often used in his work for this reason; they are symbols of our mass-produced and saturated times. The symbols cluster and conceal the essence of reality, yet reality can still insinuate itself through art, despite all the noise from incessant social media content and bombardment of TV commercials.
(Discovery and contemplation are fundamental to his works. Any meaning or ideas derived from them contribute to the pieces)
