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Prototype is a full-scale variant of a plywood structure that will be adapted for diverse functions, ranging from a house in the tropics to a movie theater in an urban park. Made in Pardo’s studio, this kit capitalizes on the potential of computer-based technologies to introduce an economic vocabulary based on irregular geometric forms and tensile structural systems.
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| Checklist of Works |
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height precedes width precedes depth
Project, 2000
3 parts: lobby, bookshop, gallery
overall dimensions: 108 x 108 feet
Commissioned by Dia, 1998
Prototype, 2003
Baltic birch plywood
15 feet 3 inches x 24 feet x 21 feet (465 x 731 x 640 cm)
Courtesy of the artist
Prototypes, 2003
glass
21 x 13 inches diameter
Courtesy Friedrich Petzel Gallery
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| Selected Bibliography |
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Jorge Pardo. Ed. Jörn Schafaff and Barbara Steiner. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Texts by Philippe Parreno, Jörn Schafaff, Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen, Andreas Spiegel, Frances Stark, and Barbara Steiner.
Jorge Pardo. Basel: Schwabe, in association with Kunsthalle Basel, 2000.
Jorge Pardo. Philadelphia: Fabric Workshop and Museum, 1999. Texts by Paola Antonelli, Steven Beyer, Marion Boulton Stroud, Jorge Pardo, and Christiane Schneider.
Jorge Pardo. London: Royal Festival Hall, 1999. Text by Jan Tumlir.
Jorge Pardo (special box catalogue). Ed. Russell Ferguson. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,1997. Texts by Ann Goldstein, Stacia Payne, and an interview by Amada Cruz.
Jorge Pardo. Tokyo: Person’s Weekend Museum, 1993. Texts by Timothy Blum and George Porcari.
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| Biography |
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Born in 1963 in Havana, Cuba, Jorge Pardo emigrated to the United States in July 1969. He studied at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena (1984–88) and has exhibited widely since his first solo show in 1988. Besides participating in numerous international group exhibitions, he has realized various permanent projects, including Reading Room at the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam in 1996; Pier in the 1997 Skulptur.Projekte in Münster; 4166 Sea View Lane (with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles) in 1998, and Untitled (Café-Restaurant), K21, Düsseldorf, in 2002. Pardo lives and works in Los Angeles and on Long Island.
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Support for this exhibition was provided by Friedrich Petzel Gallery and the members of the Dia Art Council.
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