Marco Pardo
Bio
Visual artist and illustrator. He has a degree in Advertising and Public Relations at Complutense University of Madrid and a degree in Fine Arts and Design in Illustration at the School of Arts and Crafts.
He received the Vitra Scholarship 2006 in which he had the opportunity to work with Jaime Hayon on a project for the University of Fine Arts in Limoges.
He was selected by Mario Suarez to participate in the book "Spanish Illustrators" published by Lunwerg editores magazine. His work has been exhibited in different Spanish and international galleries in Tokyo and Lyon. In 2019 he participated in the JustMad2019 Art Fair in Madrid. He is currently a teacher at TAI school and is preparing his fourth solo exhibition at Galería de Arte A Ciegas.
Statement
The proposal aims to stage, through the installation with ceramics, decorated tiles and expanded drawings, a living document that presents the conflicts and dislocated perceptions of the artist Marco Pardo in the face of an actuality that already seems to repeat itself as such to the point of making everything else disappear.
Faced with a current time of imposed conditions, the reconfiguration of the social and its different levels of relationship with the outside pushes to dislocate those of the inside. The disappearance of the face until only the eyes remain without a possible look; the different ruptures of the gesture, hugs and absent kisses, the only weight of a hand on the shoulder; the behaviors that are triggered by sympathy that border on the absurd; the references recover their value in front of a world of the same, a non-place home where only one recognizes and a time that is more than ever repetition.
