Jose Iraola’s ‘Florilegio’ tonight at Edge Zones Art Center
Tonight is the closing night for “Florilegio”, artist Jose Iraola’s beautiful show of hyper-surrealist flower photographs. Iraola uses a broken camera to create lush and haunting images; when the camera started warping images he initially tried to get it fixed but after an unsuccessful attempt he decided to work with the effect rather than fight it. The results are reminiscent of early photographic images created with pinhole cameras- a very basic version of a camera which is not much more than a simple box with a hole allowing light through. These pinhole cameras would allow light to “leak” the sides creating surrealistic distortions, like this image from photographer Sally Mann:
What sets Iraola’s work apart is the saturated color, which makes his images seem more like POP art than surrealism. A review by the The New Times discusses with the artist the comparisons to Andy Warhol’s very famous POP flowers:
Tonight is the last night to see the show:
Edge Zones Art Center
47 NE 25th St, Miami FL 33137 www.edgezones.org
