Jorge Pardo (artist)

Jorge Pardo (born 1963, in Havana) is a Cuban-

American artist and sculptor.[1][2][3][4] Pardo's artwork Jorge Pardo
explores the intersection of contemporary painting, Born Cuba
design, sculpture, and architecture. In 2010, he was Education University of Illinois at Chicago, Art
awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.[5] Center College of Design
Known for Sculpture, Design, Architecture,
He lives and works in Mérida, Mexico.
Painting, installation art
Awards MacArthur Fellowship Award,
Life and career Smithsonian American Art Museum
Lucelia Artist Award, The Louis
Pardo was born in Havana but his family relocated to Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
Chicago when he was six. His father worked at a staple
factory and his mother was a bookkeeper. He attended the University of Illinois at Chicago, originally to
study biology. After taking courses in painting recreationally he was encouraged to change direction by a
teacher, and received his BFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena,[6] where he was a
student of Stephen Prina[7] and Mike Kelley.[2]

Works
Pardo's work has always dealt with the intersection of sculpture, architecture and construction. Regarding
his work, Pardo has stated "What I do is shape space and play with history that forms people's sense of
expectation."[2]

At one of his earliest shows, at Los Angeles gallery Thomas Solomon's Garage (1990), Pardo exhibited
handyman tools he had reworked.[2]

4166 Sea View Lane (1998)

In 1993, Pardo proposed that he would build his own house as part of an exhibition for LA MoCA,[8]
blurring the lines between art and function; "a house that is also a sculpture".[9] The single story, bent C-
shaped redwood structure was completed in 1998, when it opened to the public as a temporary satellite
space to MoCA. The house is situated on a steep hillside in Mount Washington, Los Angeles. Structurally,
the house is windowless toward Sea View Lane but offers semicircular views of a lush interior garden as
well as a view of the Pacific Ocean, weather-permitting, from the dining room. Pardo designed every
element in the building - the lamps, furniture, tiles and garden landscaping.[10]

Project (2000-2001)

Pardo was commissioned to create an art work for the Dia Art Foundation at 548 W 22nd Street in
Chelsea, New York in 2000. His resulting work, Project, functioned in three ways: to redesign the
museum lobby, to create a substantial bookshop, and to propose an exhibition for the first-floor gallery, a
traditional white cube space. The installation included wardrobe furniture for a patient's room by designer
Alvar Aalto, side tables by designer Marcel Breuer, high stools by designer Jasper Morrison, and a full-
scale model of a 1994 Volkswagen New Beetle. Pardo preferred to work incrementally, improvising with
an agreed-upon framework as the project progressed. The exhibition brochure states: "Eschewing finite
edges, erasing borders both literal and metaphorical, Project problematizes the interface between art,
architecture, and design."[11]

Reyes House (2005)

In 2005, Pardo was commissioned to design a house for art collectors César and Mima Reyes in
Naguabo, Puerto Rico. Fashioned after 4166 Sea View Lane, the house was designed to take advantage of
the location by making the space open to the surrounding Caribbean views. Pardo incorporated concrete,
bright orange metal screens, colorful tiling, and a kitchen collaboratively designed with the Reyes
themselves. Reyes said of Pardo, "Jorge has an incredible sense of space. Some people have a perfect ear
for music; he has perfect spatial intelligence."[12]

Tecoh (2007)

Madrazo Tecoh Project saw Pardo renovate a ruined estate an hour out of Mérida, Mexico. The site was
originally a farm and factory for manufacturing sisal twine, reaching its apex of productivity in the 1920s
and '30s. The estate gradually went into disrepair in the postwar years, following the introduction of
synthetic fibers.[9] Pardo's refurbishment is founded on the history and aesthetic of the site, calling on
local craftspeople for construction assistance. Like 4166 Sea View Lane, Pardo meticulously designed
every aspect of the building's structure and interior elements. "Every element in Tecoh is laboriously
thought over by being designed and redesigned, the formalism of the near-cubist angular surfaces further
reinforcing not only the "irregular topography", but also the ongoing conversation so crucial to Pardo's
work.".[13] The catalogue for this project consisted of a book of photographs of the site, where Pardo
superimposed glowing color fields.[8]

Exhibitions
Pardo is represented by neugerriemschneider in Berlin, Petzel Gallery in New York and Galerie Gisela
Capitain in Cologne. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York[14] and the
Centre Pompidou in Paris. He has had solo exhibitions at Gagosian Gallery, the Irish Museum of Modern
Art, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the
Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami.

Works & Commissions

Pier, (1997), Skulptur Projekte Muenster, Münster, Germany[15]
Untitled (Sailboat) (1997), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Lighthouse (1997), Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
4166 Sea View Lane (1998), Los Angeles, California
Project (2000-2001), Dia Art Foundation, New York
Restaurant, Parliament (2002), Paul-Löbe-Haus, Berlin, Germany
 Flower Glasshouse, Flower Power (2002-2003), Palais des Beaux Arts, Lille, France
Historic Turbine-Hall (2003), Stadtwerke Düsseldorf, Germany
Project for Lever House (2003-2004), New York
oliver, oliver, oliver, outdoor movie theatre (2004), Braunschweig Parcours, Germany
Reyes House (2005), Naguabo, Puerto Rico
Untitled (Pleasure Boat) (2005), Los Angeles
Untitled (96 Butterfly Lamps) (2006-2007), Aventura Mall, Aventure, Florida
Tecoh (2007), Tecoh Municipality, Mérida, Mexico
Reinstallation of Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Latin American Galleries (2008)
Cathedral de Burgos (2010), Burgos, Spain
Provost Church St. Trinitas (2012-2015), Leipzig, Germany
Streetcar Stop for Portland (2013), Portland
Pardo Houses at Krabbesholm Højskole,[16] Skive, Denmark
Jorge Pardo et la sculpture romane, Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France (2018)[17]

Literature
Philippe Parreno, Barbara Steiner, et al., Jorge Pardo, Hatje Cantz, 2000.
Miljohn Ruperto and Donelle Woolford, editors, 4166 Sea View Lane: a Reader, Commerce
Books, 2003.
Liam Gillick, Jorge Pardo, Haunch of Venison, London, 2003.
Christina Végh, Jorge Pardo, Haunch of Venison, Zürich, 2005.
Lane Relyea, Christina Végh, Chris Kraus, Jorge Pardo, Phaidon, London, 2008.
Bonnie Clearwater, Veronica Gonzalez, Ruba Katrib, Jorge Pardo: House, Los Angeles
County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 2008.
Alex Coles, Doris Krystof, et al., Jorge Pardo, Richter Verlag, Dusseldorf, 2009.
Alex Coles, Michael Govan, Claudia Madrao Tecoh, Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2012.

References
1. Finkel, Jori (2 December 2007). "Here's the Show, the Works Are Elsewhere" (https://www.n
ytimes.com/2007/12/02/arts/design/02fink.html). The New York Times.
2. Diane Solway. "Jorge Pardo: Go Inside Tecoh" (https://web.archive.org/web/2014112212393
7/http://www.wmagazine.com/culture/art-and-design/2013/10/jorge-pardo-tecoh-artist-and-ar
chitect). W Magazine. Archived from the original (http://www.wmagazine.com/culture/art-and
-design/2013/10/jorge-pardo-tecoh-artist-and-architect/) on 2014-11-22. Retrieved
2014-11-28.
3. "Sculptor Jorge Pardo: Is it art or furniture?" (http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p
-39631546/). Los Angeles Times.
4. "Jorge Pardo" (http://www.petzel.com/exhibitions/2014-03-01_jorge-pardo/). Petzel Gallery.
5. "Jorge Pardo" (http://www.macfound.org/fellows/38/). MacArthur Foundation. Retrieved
2016-03-17.
6. "Jorge Pardo" (http://www.macfound.org/fellows/38/). MacArthur Foundation. Retrieved
2016-03-17.
7. Relyea, Lane (2013). Your Everyday Art World. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. p. 73.
ISBN 9780262316910.
8. Vegh, Christina (2008). Jorge Pardo. New York: Phaidon. p. 94. ISBN 9780714846583.
 9. Tumlir, Jan (September 2013). "Ornament and Clime". Artforum: 109–112.
10. https://www.worldcat.org/title/4166-sea-view-lane-a-reader/oclc/698386749
11. C., L. (May 10, 2017). "Exhibition Brochure for Jorge Pardo: Project" (http://www.diaart.org/
media/_file/brochures/pardo-jorge-project-2.pdf) (PDF). Dia Art Foundation. Archived (http
s://web.archive.org/web/20170511192713/http://www.diaart.org/media/_file/brochures/pardo
-jorge-project-2.pdf) (PDF) from the original on May 11, 2017. Retrieved May 11, 2017.
12. Maura, Egan (Spring 2006). "Artistic License" (https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/style/tm
agazine/artistic-license.html). The New York Times Style Magazine. pp. 134–139.
13. Coles, Alex (2012). Jorge Pardo: Tecoh. Berlin: Sternberg Press. p. 72.
ISBN 9783943365443.
14. "Jorge Pardo | MoMA" (https://www.moma.org/artists/8132). The Museum of Modern Art.
Retrieved 2021-05-09.
15. "Skulptur Projekte Archiv" (https://www.skulptur-projekte-archiv.de/en-us/1997/projects/24/).
www.skulptur-projekte-archiv.de. Retrieved 2021-05-09.
16. "krabbesholm | art architecture design | v3" (https://web.archive.org/web/20160821152151/h
ttp://www.krabbesholm.dk/projects/pardohouse/da_index.html). www.krabbesholm.dk.
Archived from the original (https://www.krabbesholm.dk/projects/pardohouse/da_index.html)
on 2016-08-21. Retrieved 2017-05-06.
17. "Jorge Pardo et la sculpture romane - Musée des Augustins - Musée des Augustins" (https://
web.archive.org/web/20181224220052/https://www.augustins.org/fr/web/guest/-/jorge-pardo
-et-la-sculpture-romane). www.augustins.org. Archived from the original (https://www.augusti
ns.org/fr/web/guest/-/jorge-pardo-et-la-sculpture-romane) on 2018-12-24.

Further reading
Grosenick, Uta; Riemschneider, Burkhard, eds. (2005). Art Now (25th anniversary ed.).
Köln: Taschen. pp. 240–243. ISBN 9783822840931. OCLC 191239335 (https://search.world
cat.org/oclc/191239335).

External links
Official website (http://www.jorgepardosculpture.com/)
http://www.sternberg-press.com/?pageId=1409
http://www.test.phaidon.com/store/art/jorge-pardo-9780714846583/
http://www.diaart.org/media/_file/brochures/pardo-jorge-project-2.pdf

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