Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Jorge Pardo: House is the first comprehensive U.S. museum exhibition of Los Angeles-based artist, Jorge Pardo. Accompanied by an illustrated catalogue, this nationally touring solo exhibition spans Pardo's career to include more than seventy seminal works.
Arranged according to use and function, and displayed within the context of various rooms of a house, the installations, sculptures, and paintings in Jorge Pardo: House highlight the artist's ability to consistently traverse the boundaries between art, design, and architecture. These vignettes of household areas – a kitchen, office, living room, bedroom or garden – reveal how Pardo's inventive works conflate seemingly distinct genres to defy meaning. In keeping with the genre-crossing characteristics of Pardo's work, Jorge Pardo: House will also extend beyond the space of the museum itself to encompass several of Pardo's site-specific projects installed around the world. These projects will be presented as photomurals, and viewers will be provided with information on visiting the sites themselves.
In the everyday objects and environments that he creates, Pardo considers issues relating to representation as well as to the place and role of an artwork—its frame, its borders, its relation to its site, and its intersection with architecture and design. Although Pardo's work invokes both Modernism and Minimalism, he undermines both traditions in unique ways. He divorces Modernist form from function in his objects, yet, he invests these works with personal and autobiographical components that contradict a Minimalist sense of detachment.