Jorge Pardo

by Relyea, Lane; Végh, Christina; Kraus, Chris

• ISBN13: 9780714846583
• ISBN10: 0714846589
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-05-28
• Publisher: Phaidon Press

Summary

Los Angeles-based Jorge Pardo (b. 1963) is an artist whose work crosses the boundaries of art, design, and architecture to redefine notions of space and utility. His work re-examines the rules of modernism by incorporating elements of Minimalism and his personal responses to everyday objects and settings. Works by Pardo can be found in the world's most prestigious museums, and several of his permanent public projects can be seen around the world, including PIER, which he built for the 1997 Skulpture Projekte in Munster, and MOUNTAIN BAR, which he designed in 2003 for the Chinatown neighborhood in Los Angeles. This is the first monograph of this scale and scope on Jorge Pardo's work.

Author Biography

Lane Relyea is Assistant Professor of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He writes regularly for such magazines as Artforum, Art in America and Parkett, and he has contributed to numerous publications, including monographs on such artists as Vija Celmins (2004) and Wolfgang Tillmans (2006), and exhibition catalogues such as 'Helter Skelter' (1992) and 'Public Offerings' (2001).

Christina Végh has been Director of the Bonner Kunstverein since 2005, where she has organized exhibitions on such artists as Jonas Dahlberg and Jàn Mancuska (2005) and John Baldessari (2007). In 2000 she curated an exhibition on Jorge Pardo at Kunsthalle Basel, and she has written extensively on his work. She contributes to a range of art journals, including Parkett and Kunstbulletin, and her published writing includes texts on Franz Ackermann, Yehudit Sasportas and Corey McCorkle.

Chris Kraus, a writer based in Los Angeles, is founding editor of Semiotext(e)'s Native Agents imprint. She has written on art, poetics and theory for numerous academic anthologies and art magazines, and she is the author of Video Green, a collection of essays about the Los Angeles art world.

Table of Contents

Interview: Lane Relyea, in conversation with Jorge Pardo	p. 7
Survey: What We Need in Life	p. 39
Focus: 4166 Sea View Lane	p. 105
Artist's Choice: Twin time, or: how death befell me, 2007	p. 117
Artist's Writings	p. 127
Proposal for the Movie Theatre 'The Oliver', 2004	p. 129
About the In-Between: Jorge Pardo speaks to Jan Tumlir, 1999	p. 132
Chronology	p. 143
Bibliography	p. 155
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