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Pardo has completely transformed Dia's 9,000 square-foot first floor in a complex, multifaceted project that includes redesigning the lobby, creating a new bookshop, and staging an exhibition in the reconfigured gallery. Dia's bookshop, with an independent entrance and expanded opening hours, focuses on postwar and contemporary art and culture, theory, history, and poetry, as well as video work courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix.
Bookshop hours: Wednesday–Sunday 11am–6pm, through June 17
(books also available online)
Gallery hours: Wednesday–Sunday 12–6pm, through June 17
Summer Programs and Hours for Bookshop
June 17 - July 28, Wednesday through Saturday, 11am to 6pm (closed July 29-mid September)
As part of its mission to serve as a resource for artists and art viewers, the bookshop will host a series of special events throughout the summer, beginning on June 20 with a 24-hour reading of On Kawara's "One Million Years (Future)." Additional events will include booksignings, readings, and video screenings.
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| Checklist of Works |
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3 parts: lobby, bookshop, gallery
overall dimensions: 108 x 108 feet
Commissioned by Dia Center for the Arts, 1998
a. Alvar Aalto, Wardrobe, Patient's Room,
Paimio Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Paimio, Finland, 1929–1933
wood and plywood, iron
80frac14; x 32 x 12 inches
Collection of Gallery Gilles Peyroulet, Paris
b. Volkswagen AG Design Center, Volkswagen New Beetle
Full-Scale Model, 1995
steel, wood, hardfoam, clay
59frac12; x 68 x 161 inches
Collection: Volkswagen Design, Simi Valley, California and Wolfsburg, Germany
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| Selected Bibliography |
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Jorge Pardo. Ed. Jörn Schafaff, Barbara Steiner. Landesbank Baden-Würtemberg in association with Cantz, 2000. Texts by Philippe Parreno, Jörn Schafaff, Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen, Andreas Spiegel, Barbara Steiner, and Frances Stark.
Jorge Pardo. Philadelphia: The Fabric Workshop and Museum, 1999. Texts by Steven Beyer, Marion Boulton Stroud, Paola Antonelli, Jorge Pardo, and Christiane Schneider.
Jorge Pardo. London: Royal Festival Hall, 1999. Text by Jan Tumlir.
Jorge Pardo. Ed. Russell Ferguson. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art and Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1997 (special box catalogue). Texts by Ann Goldstein, Stacia Payne, and an interview by Amada Cruz.
Jorge Pardo. Augsburg: Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst, 1997. Text by Tobias Rehberger.
Jorge Pardo. Tokyo: Person's Weekend Museum, 1993. Texts by George Porcari and Timothy Blum.
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| Biography |
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Born in 1963 in Havana, Cuba, Jorge Pardo emigrated to the United States in July 1969. He studied at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena (1984–1988) and has exhibited widely since his first solo show in 1988. Besides participating in numerous international group exhibitions, he has realized various permanent projects, including Reading Room at the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam in 1996, Pier in the 1997 Skulptur.Projekte in Münster, and, in 1998, 4166 Sea View Lane (with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles). Pardo lives and works in Los Angeles.
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| Funding |
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Support for this exhibition has been provided by the Lannan Foundation; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Peter Norton Family Foundation; Lily Auchincloss Foundation; The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia; and the members of the Dia Art Council.
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