Video: Up in the sky: photographic realism in drawings by Jorge L ó pez Pardo
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Cuban Jorge Lopez Pardo draws with graphite and manages to achieve almost photographic accuracy. His works from cycles Black Box and Sighting seem stingy and strict, but in fact they are poetic. The plane in the sky covered with clouds for the artist symbolizes the modern man.
According to the artist himself, airplanes attract him by the fact that for them "there are no restrictions - moreover, they are constantly fighting with them." Pardo believes that modern life, with its burden of worries, responsibilities and conventions, makes these heavenly images especially attractive.
In order to draw attention to his philosophical concepts, Pardo chose an unusual technique for their implementation. The artists who paint graphite on canvas are not so common. The Cuban perfects this method - his pictures with a falling plane or a nuclear "fungus" can easily be passed off as photographs.
Despite the indicative realism, the artist believes that an irrational grain can be discerned in his works. "I combine sober calculation and formal techniques with the vague environment in which the objects I depict are located", - explains Prado, - "This allows you to look through the outer shell and see the essence, feel a living person behind the drawn machine."
Jorge Lopez Pardo is one of the many representatives of contemporary Cuban art that has developed rapidly throughout the XX-XXI centuries. Those who are interested in the work should get acquainted with the Cuban artists, to whose work Kulturologia.ru has already contacted: such as the author of unusual sculpture-installations Jorge Mayet and experimenter Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada.
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