3 May 2007 – 1 July 2007

SENESCENCIA. IGNACIO PARDO

Ignacio Pardo’s creations (Lugo, Spain, 1947) have been featured at the most important Spanish video venues, including the video festivals in Vitoria (1986) and Cádiz (1987), which were both very prestigious in the eighties. After an apparent break in his production, he reappears now at CGAC with a monographic exhibition curated by Cristina Prego.
Slightly alien to the Galician movida, Ignacio Pardo joined the group of videocreators in 1985 and he chose to work with humble domestic means in order to tackle his work in an essentially individual manner, consistent with his training and practice in plastic arts, instead of from the teamwork habits of the audiovisual industry. In fact, in his first video piece, Videoviolín (1985), we can detect the influence of Norman McLaren’s handmade cinema.
In a society dominated by the visual sphere, Ignacio Pardo conceives video as a support that allows him to throw some darts against the accepted ‘moral orthodoxy’, from its same language, shredding and tearing the nice wrapping that the mass media have created around reality, unveiling the darkest and most sinister corners of human existence, such as death, senescence, human desires and failures in the eternal search for happiness.

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