Gianfranco Pardi was born in 1933 in Milan, where he passed away in 2012. Since the ’60s his artistic research has been devoted to integrate drawing, painting and sculpture into an architectural and spatial dimension. Fundamental to his work has been the reinterpreation of historical avant-gardes such as Abstractionism, Constructivism or Neoplasticism, which can be found in his open geometric sign able to give body to a productive thought. Starting from a rigorous design, the artist revealed the dynamics and the relationships of form and matter: imaginary architectural interiors, rigidly geometric or biomorphic sculptures, bonds of architectural constructions and natural environments. Since the ‘70s, Gianfranco Pardi developed the “Architetture”, works of balance and tension that organize on canvas a game of chromatic backgrounds and steel tie rods. Between the end of the ‘80s and the early ‘90s he worked on the series Cinema, Monk and Mschere, basically using steel structures, followed by the cycles Nagima, inspired by the night light in Tanager, and Box, works made with cardboard boxes.

Gianfranco Pardi has exhibited his works in solo exhibitions in important institutions, such as: Fondazione Marconi, Milan (2014, 2011, 2006), Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Museum Bochum, Bochum and Kulturhistorisches Museum, Straslund (1999), Palazzo Reale, Milan (1998), Palazzo Comunale, Venzone, Udine (1993), Galleria Comunale di Arte Contemporanea, Arezzo (1986), University of Parma, Parma (1984), Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea, Suzzara (1983), University of Pescara, Pescara (1974), Salone Annunciata, Milan (1970). Among the most important collective exhibitions held in institutions: Galleria Civica, Modena (2017), Museo della Permanente, Milan (2014), Palazzo Reale, Milan (2012), Palazzo Pallavicini Rospigliosi, Rome (2001), Castello Visconteo, Pavia (1998), Palazzo della Provincia, Turin (1995), La Triennale, Milan (1992), Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan (1989), Palace of Arts, Moscow (1988), Middelheim Museum, Antwerp (1987), Gallery of Modern Art, Bologna (1982), Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (1981), Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Turin (1977), Palazzo Reale, Milan (1972), Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City (1971), Institute of Fine Arts, Sidney (1969). He also took part in the international exhibitions Venice Biennale (2011, 1986) and Rome Quadriennale (1986).

His collaboration with Galleria Fumagalli began in 1994 with his firs personal exhibition and the publication of a catalog with a text by Giovanni Maria Accame. It continued in 1996 with a second solo show accompanied by a catalog with an interview by Marco Meneguzzo. In 1999 Galleria Fumagalli published the volume, with texts by Hans Gunter Golinski, Marco Meneguzzo and Peter Weiermair, accompanying the retrospectives in Germany at the Kunstverein in Frankfurt, at the Museum Bochum and at the Kulturhistorisches Museum Stralsund. Again in 1999, the gallery curated the book “From Saint-Victoire to Tangier – Il viaggio di Pardi”, with a text by Giorgio De Michelis, and the exhibition followed by the volume “Box”. In 2002 an exhibition was staged presenting the iron sculpture “Sheets” and an extensive monograph published under the curation of Marco Meneguzzo is published. In 2004 Galleria Fumagalli presented a series of never-seen-before photographs inspired by the city of Tanger and published the book “Ne pleure celui qui connut Tanger …”. In 2006 a personal exhibition was set up at the Fumagalli and at the Fondazione Marconi in Milan. In 2008 another exhibition is divided between the gallery spaces in Bergamo and those of Galleria Giò Marconi in Milan. and two volumes are published “Works 1970/77” and “Works 2003/08” both with texts by Bruno Corà.

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

GIANFRANCO PARDI
Architetture, 1970-1977 e opere

Opening 20 September 2008
23 September to 26 October 2008

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GIANFRANCO PARDI
Opere 2004/2006

Opening 26 May 2006
27 May to 28 July 2006

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GIANFRANCO PARDI
Sheets

February 2002

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GIANFRANCO PARDI
Box

1999

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GIANFRANCO PARDI
Opere 1990/1995

1996

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GIANFRANCO PARDI

1994

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Visioni. 20 artisti a Sant’Agostino

Opening 8 April 2005
9 April to 11 giugno 2005

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AAVV:30

Opening 27 November 2004
30 November 2004 to 20 January 2005

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Uscita di sicurezza

October 1996

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