Mercedes Pardo | |
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| Born | July 29, 1921 Caracas, Venezuela |
| Died | March 24, 2005 (aged 83) San Antonio de Los Altos, Venezuela |
| Nationality | Venezuelan |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Abstract Art |
| Spouses | Marco Bonta
(m. 1945, divorced)Alejandro Otero (m. 1951) |
Mercedes Clementina Marta del Carmen Pardo Ponte,[1] known as Mercedes Pardo (July 29, 1921 – March 24, 2005) was a Venezuelan abstract art painter.[2][3][4][5]
Biography
Pardo was born July 29, 1921 (or July 20, 1921, according to her obituary in El Pais[6]) in Caracas, Venezuela. By age 13 she began taking free classes at the Academia de Bellas Artes.[5]
In 1941 she joined the Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Aplicadas in Caracas.[4] She was active in painting, printmaking, and collage, and in 1991 the National Art Gallery in Caracas held an exhibition to review her work from 1941 to 1991.[7][8]
In 1945 she married Marco Bonta, a professor of stained glass and mural painting. Their marriage was short.[5]
In 1947 she attended the Academy of Fine Arts of Santiago in Chile where she had her first one-woman show. In 1949 she moved to Paris and attended the École du Louvre.[5]
In 1951 she married the painter Alejandro Otero.[5]
She died on March 24, 2005, in San Antonio de Los Altos, Venezuela.[5]
Legacy
The Fundación Alejandro Otero-Mercedes Pardo was established in 2016. It is located at Alejandro Otero and Mercedes Pardo's house in San Antonio de Los Altos.[9]
In 2023 her work was included in the exhibition Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-1970 at the Whitechapel Gallery in London.[10]
Exhibitions[5]
- 1947 Pacific Room, Santiago de Chile
- 1962 MBA
- 1964 "Signs", Sala Mendoza
- 1967 "Signs", Librería Cruz del Sur, Caracas
- 1969 "1 x 9 color of silkscreen", MBA
- 1970 "Recent works of Mercedes Pardo", Sala Mendoza
- 1971 Center of Fine Arts, Maracaibo
- 1974 Aele Gallery, Madrid
- 1977 Adler Gallery / Castillo, Caracas / El Parque Art Center, Valencia, Edo. Carabobo / Pecanins Gallery, Mexico City
- 1978 "From the workshop of Mercedes Pardo today, National Art Gallery", Caracas / Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City
- 1979 "Color, skin, meditated presence: anthological exhibition by Mercedes Pardo", GAN / Galería Adler / Castillo, Caracas
- 1980 "Mercedes Pardo in Margarita: paintings / serigraphs", Museo Francisco Narváez
- 1983 "Inesauribile Venezia", Sagitario Gallery, Caracas
- 1991 "Moradas del color", GAN
- 1993 "Graphic work of Mercedes Pardo", Consulate of Venezuela, New York
- 1994 "Graphic work of Mercedes Pardo", The Warm Spaces
- 1995 "Graphic work of Mercedes Pardo", MRE
- 1996 Sacred Museum, Caracas
- 2000 "Mercedes Pardo, 1951–2000", MAO / "Color and shape", GAN
- 2005 House of the Culture Village of the Sea, Porlamar, Edo. Nueva Esparta / Unimet
Awards[5]
- 1942 Honorable mention in painting, III Official Salon
- 1944 José Loreto Arismendi Prize, V Official Show
- 1960 Puebla de Bolívar Prize, XXI Official Salon
- 1961 Prize of the Fina Gómez Foundation, XXII Official Show
- 1964 National Prize for Applied Arts (shared with Alejandro Otero), XXV Salón Oficial
- 1966 Enamel Prize, International Exhibition of Artistic Crafts, Stuttgart, Germany
- 1978 National Prize of Plastic Arts, Caracas
- 1980 Special Edition Purchase Award, World Print III, San Francisco, California, United States
- 1991 Armando Reverón Award, AVAP
References
- ↑ "Mercedes Clementina Marta del Carmen Pardo Ponte". geni.com. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
- ↑ "Pardo Mercedes". Art&Art. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
- ↑ "Mercedes Pardo". MutualArt.com. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
- 1 2 Boudon, Lawrence (2002). Handbook of Latin American Studies v. 58. p. 68. ISBN 9780292709102. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Pardo, Mercedes". Wikihistoria del arte Venezolano. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
- ↑ "Mercedes Pardo, pintora (obituary)". El Pais. 28 March 2005. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
- ↑ Puerto, Cecilia (1996). Latin American Women Artists, Kahlo and Look who Else: A Selective, Annotated Bibliography. Greenwood. p. 189. ISBN 9780313289347.
- ↑ "Mercedes Pardo : 1 x 9 / Margarita DAmico". Documents of Latin American and Latino Art (in Spanish). Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Archived from the original on 23 June 2019.
- ↑ Benko, Susana. "Opening of the Fundación Alejandro Otero-Mercedes Pardo". ArtNexus. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
- ↑ "Action, Gesture, Paint". Whitechapel Gallery. Retrieved 27 April 2023.
Further reading
- Mercedes Pardo: moradas del color. Fundacion Galeria de Arte Nacional. 1991.
- "Pardo Mercedes". Art&Art. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
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