Paper Stage (Allegory of Life) by Typoe

About the edition:

TYPOE’s mural "Paper Stage (Allegory of Life)" turns the Carnival Tower at the Adrienne Arsht Center into a kind of endless performance—a stage where figures, animals and symbols move through layered space. When we set out to create a limited-edition print, our goal was to preserve that feeling of a paper theater unfolding in real time, but at a scale you can live with at home.

Working directly from the original artwork, we focused on translating its depth, color relationships and “stacked,” stagelike composition into a print that still feels dimensional. Multiple passes of carefully calibrated color were used to keep the crisp, graphic language of the mural while allowing softer gradients and shadowed areas to emerge. The result is an archival print that captures not just the image, but the sense of a story suspended midscene—ready to be revisited again and again.

From the artist:

“ 'Paper Stage (Allegory of Life)' began with my fascination with antique paper theaters—small, handmade stages where kids could arrange characters and scenery and essentially direct their own plays. I wanted to bring that idea into the present: a world built from cutout shapes and symbols where man, nature, romance and mystery all share the same stage.

"The mural—and these prints—are about that in-between space where childhood imagination and adult experience overlap. I’m interested in how a single image can hold multiple readings depending on who’s looking and what they’re bringing to it. My hope is that viewers feel a bit of the wonder they might feel before a performance begins: The curtain hasn’t gone up yet, but something is about to happen, and you’re already part of it."

About the artist:

TYPOE Gran (b. 1983, Miami) is a Jewish-Cuban mixed media artist whose practice spans painting, sculpture, murals and large-scale installations in  public and private spaces. His work often builds from simple, toylike forms and symbolic imagery to explore themes of play, ritual, memory and mortality. TYPOE has exhibited at institutions including Crystal Bridges Museum (Bentonville, Arkansas), Locust Projects (Miami), Public Art of the University of Houston System (Houston), Artis–Naples (Naples, Florida) and Faena Art Center (Buenos Aires, Argentina). His work is held in the permanent collections of the Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh), Pérez Art Museum Miami and the Boca Raton Museum of Art.

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