Jorge Pardo

This untitled work by Jorge Pardo made in 2019 combines intricate laser cutting, LED lighting and painterly composition to depict a surreal scene. Combining found images and personal photography, Pardo creates a montage evoking his adopted home of Merida, in Mexico’s Yucatan. Intricate, backlit matrices illuminate the space and allude to Pardo’s longstanding fascination with light and the reinvention of interior and exterior spaces, notably through his Gesamtkunstwerke, particularly L’Arlatan (2018), a fifteenth-century palace and Tecoh (2006-2012), a sprawling seventeenth-century hacienda that Pardo restored and redesigned. The expressive brushstrokes recall panel paintings made throughout the space of L’Arlatan, adorning wardrobes, doors and cupboards. Here, Pardo combines his gestural approach with a delicate matrix of light.

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