Jorge López Pardo

For Sale, 2003

Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 81 cm.


  • Las pinturas de López Pardo son una refinada poetización que capta de manera visceral la soledad, el deterioro, el desamparo de esas humildes viviendas campesinas, extremadamente precarias, azotadas por el tiempo y las implacables inclemencias meteorológicas del trópico.
  • En estos paisajes de la imaginación, el artista Lopezpardo ha escogido inestables momentos de quietud, intuimos que antes o después aconteció o ha de pasar algo convulso y temible, un desastre social o natural, una simple tormenta o un ciclón tropical. Nadie está presente, pero sabemos de la angustia y soledad del hombre que ha pasado por estos parajes, sitios del recuerdo y del alma abandonados a su destino, experiencias universales.
  • Jorge López Pardo, one of the most virtuous landscapes painters among the exponents of the plastic arts in the Caribbean. His singularity canvases are finely elaborated with impeccable draughtsmanship.

The green that permeates a work such as For Sale filters in front of our eyes a breath of hope, of peace amidst the chaos and desolation; it is a kind of poetry of the rural, of those spaces that exist on the outskirts of the social modernization processes, those spaces outside time, suspended in a non-progressive, non-lineal, eternal time. It is simply the footprint a man has left on the natural landscape, and the crumbling of those peasant huts serve also as metaphors of the feebleness that life is in its inevitable process of decomposition through the relentless passage of time: the decomposition of the footprint, the silent pull of the earth that attracts all matter onto its realm…

–Dr. Hamlet Fernández