Jorge Pardo
These pictures are taken in Art basel Hongkong 2018. Galerie Gisela Capitain is pleased to announce its eighth exhibition with new works by Jorge Pardo. Jorge Pardo’s work is distinguished by an interweaving of sculpture and painting, design and architecture, craftsmanship and computerized production. Experimenting with different display formats belongs to the core ideas of his artistic practice in the same way like focusing on questions of design and composition. The wall objects that Pardo created for the exhibition at Galerie Gisela Capitain are hybrids between sculpture, painting, and objects. They visualize in a very characteristic way his discourse of painting. Pictures with intricately designed surfaces result from an interacting of various layers and levels. Shapes from computer-manipulated photographs of the artist’s everyday environment overlap and are ornamentally perforated and milled on wooden panels that are painted in various colors a...