Sculptor Jorge Pardo: Is it art or furniture? – Why quibble? The Cuban-born artist’s fanciful imagination knows no bounds, and his works, no boundaries. From: latimes.com

Pardo has spent his career so restlessly straddling the borders of sculpture, design and furniture that he has drawn humorous comparisons to IKEA and Martha Stewart. If you can’t afford his luminous, geometric outdoor installations in massive concrete, you can always hope for a lamp. His lush colors and dancing forms make their way into houses, interiors, chairs, even clocks. If you flip through the new Phaidon book “Jorge Pardo,” his innumerable mutations feel like a Disney “Fantasia” in which lamps float away as glowing butterflies. Plant-like shapes loom somewhere between Fred Flintstone and the Jetsons, with sprightly touches reminiscent of Picasso cohort Wilfredo Lam. Massive concrete geometric forms are illuminated with warm colors.”*

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