"Jorge Pardo"
2000-06-17 until 2000-08-27
Kunsthalle Basel
Basel, , CH

What is art's role in society? Can art be utilised and if so, for what? The Californian artist Jorge Pardo is an outstanding representative of that movement in contemporary art which tries to come to grips with the relationship between design and art. Pardo's playful delight in experimentation leads him to take ever new exploratory trips into the realms of design, architecture, painting and graphics, on which he questions apparently self-evident distinctions between art and the everyday, sculpture and utility goods, two and three-dimensionality, or private and public space.

While Pardo's works assume very different forms - and integrate chairs, lamps, pictures, photographs, houses, floor coverings and books - the artist is always reacting to the given context. The spatial, social and historical dimensions of various places are decisive for Pardo's art, for which reason the artist always designates his works as sculptures, irrespective of the media he uses.

IMAGE:
untitled (No 17), 1999

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