User:Erb78/Jorge Pardo (Artist)

Jorge Pardo’s is an uprising contemporary artist. He started his career as an artist with his first exhibition in 1991 in Santa Monica. His sculptural mixes his knowledge of furniture design with a distinct artistic expression that reflects his Columbian heritage and ties with vibrant, lively primary color. A description of his work would be described as intriguing, fantasy inspired, impressive, as well as futuristic.Pardo's display of work is known for its uncommonly massive size. Pardo chooses color palates to give space life in unexpected ways that would bring a theatric feel. He states “to showcase these objects in a different environment, an environment that is more dynamic. One immediate objection was that these are not the colors you show these things in.” Pardo likes to play lighting,illumination strength and the casting effect against walls and objects. This is one unique way he illuminates space to change its function to an independent object within his work. The majority of his research in the past few years has been exploring the vast kind of lighting available and the aesthetics it has on his larger works. In “untitled” he uses the environment of a hill side in Guadalajara, Mexico to marry a massive lighted architectural structure with its location. The shape of the housing for the light is a puffed cubical form that is strategically placed tilted on the hillside. Warm glowing light is casted from within the structure. The exterior walls are broken down into geometric shapes. Art critic Michael Govan regard Pardo as “prolific” and his use of lighting to be “a laboratory, the way other artist use drawing.”

His home located in Los Angeles was designed for exhibition in 1998 by the Museum of Contemporary Art prior to his inhabitation. The 3200 square foot dwelling was open for five weeks displaying the interior space as a complete work of art. The entire house took $300,000 to build. His personal home design has lead into his commission to design for the museum new and unique space to exhibit his work in. without the creation of this space there would be no way to collect the work Prado creates and risk being lost for the future. The space is over twice the size of his custom home and will house the developing art of Pardo to demonstrate the shift influences over the years.

Some of the inspiration Prado uses comes from the work done by 1950 artist who used sleek clean lines to create a modernist feel. To name just a few from this time period there is Duchamp, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier who all have been compared to elements found within the work of Jorge Pardo. The noted aesthetics Pardo exudes these influences through drawing his lines with lights that he manipulates. Methods used by Prado to reach some of his deigns to the known scale is to use miniatures to plan out the projects. He is not overly concern with the literal function as a light but the use to create interesting illuminated works of art.

Pardo’s work is extremely inventive and unique in defining him as true a contemporary artist to take notice of within the 21st century. == References ==