Jorge López Pardo

Untitled, 2010

Graphite on canvas, 89.5 x 130 cm.


  • Lopéz Pardo’s graphite paintings with its impeccable draftsmanship and great technique in the elaboration have launched him up to the highlight of the contemporary arts.
  • The present painting is fully characteristic of Lopezpardo’s work in its impeccable draughtsmanship and mastery of line.
  • Con refinada poetización López Pardo capta de manera visceral la soledad, el deterioro y el desamparo…Una abrumadora obra en la que dos chozas comparten su soledad una enfrente de la otra, ambas testigos de su mutua decadencia, resulta impresionante, sugestiva. Se trata aquí de una tenebrosa noche, en la que un misterioso haz de luz desciende y se derrama hacia el centro-derecho de la composición; un haz de luz divino que viene a develar el ser de este paraje en el que no parece existir vida humana, pero ahí están esas dos moradas, resistiendo en las tinieblas, porque son la hulla que el hombre planta en el mundo…
  • The masterpieces of López Pardo, always successful in its composition, show us the great virtuosity and impeccable draughtsmanship of this singular contemporary painter.
  • Jorge López Pardo, one of the most outstanding and virtuous painters among the exponents of the plastic arts in the Caribbean.
  • La potencia expresiva del claro oscuro, de la complementación entre luces y sombras. logrado con la técnica del grafito sobre lienzo, nos deja apreciar con admiración todo el virtuosismo de López Pardo como dibujante.

This landscape, realized with the technique of graphite on canvas, allows us to clearly enjoy all virtuosity López Pardo has as a draftsman, his skilful management of the expressive potency of chiaroscuro, of the complementation between lights and shadows. It is an overwhelming work in which two huts share their solitude, one in front of the other, both witnessing their mutual decadence, and that results impressive, suggestive. This is a gloomy night, when a mysterious ray of light descends and falls on the right center of the composition. A divine ray of light that comes to unveil the being in the remote place where human life seems not to exist, but there they are, both homes, resisting in the darkness, because they are the coal men plant in the world…