10.05.24 –
15.06.24
Quienes vagan curiosos por mil maravillas
Exhibition showroom↗
‘Quienes vagan curiosos por mil maravillas’ is Elisa Pardo Puch's second solo project at Pradiauto. On this occasion the exhibition brings together a selection of work produced in 2024 and is the result of her stay at GlogauAIR, Berlin.
‘The ducts and the large and small spheres are repeated in more pieces, because repeating, insisting and going over are Elisa's usual ways of dealing with things and getting hold of them, linked to the thought that is at her fingertips. There is nothing, however, that is directly and clearly identified with known things, for, however much the organic is evoked, what is drawn cannot be ascribed to concrete artefacts. Everything is a kind of something: tubular sheaths, pipes, boas, intestines, tracheas, serpentiform objects, pipettes, stills.
Among the drawn forms that are more complicated to describe are a kind of cup, fragments of the large black leather spheres that have been divided with astonishing regularity and dissociated, grouped together in repetitive sequences of modules that on the one hand look like containers that hold and are crossed by the small spheres, and on the other like ideograms of movement, like chronophotographs from the 19th century.
On one occasion, Elisa spoke of the possibility of a vital outburst. It was in connection with an exhibition she entitled ‘La espera’ (The Waiting). This one, which brings together wandering with curiosity and wonder, is about opening up and revealing what is/was inside, in encapsulated worlds; it is an exhibition of ways of coming out. Everything comes from something and is about to be something else. What is still will not last a minute’.
Selina Blasco
Madrid, 07/05/2024
‘Quienes vagan curiosos por mil maravillas’ is Elisa Pardo Puch's second solo project at Pradiauto. On this occasion the exhibition brings together a selection of work produced in 2024 and is the result of her stay at GlogauAIR, Berlin.
‘The ducts and the large and small spheres are repeated in more pieces, because repeating, insisting and going over are Elisa's usual ways of dealing with things and getting hold of them, linked to the thought that is at her fingertips. There is nothing, however, that is directly and clearly identified with known things, for, however much the organic is evoked, what is drawn cannot be ascribed to concrete artefacts. Everything is a kind of something: tubular sheaths, pipes, boas, intestines, tracheas, serpentiform objects, pipettes, stills.
Among the drawn forms that are more complicated to describe are a kind of cup, fragments of the large black leather spheres that have been divided with astonishing regularity and dissociated, grouped together in repetitive sequences of modules that on the one hand look like containers that hold and are crossed by the small spheres, and on the other like ideograms of movement, like chronophotographs from the 19th century.
On one occasion, Elisa spoke of the possibility of a vital outburst. It was in connection with an exhibition she entitled ‘La espera’ (The Waiting). This one, which brings together wandering with curiosity and wonder, is about opening up and revealing what is/was inside, in encapsulated worlds; it is an exhibition of ways of coming out. Everything comes from something and is about to be something else. What is still will not last a minute’.
Selina Blasco
Madrid, 07/05/2024
Elisa Pardo Puch
Elisa Pardo Puch (1988, Madrid). After completing her Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts at the UCM at the CES Felipe II in Aranjuez in 2014, she obtained a Master's Degree in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 2017. Previously, in 2010, she completed her Higher Studies in Design at the Escuela de Arte no10 in Madrid, and in 2009, she was the beneficiary of an Erasmus scholarship at the École Duperré in Paris.
She has participated in numerous exhibitions such as ‘Metal Heart: lo que pesa’ at Departamento, Bilbao; ‘Bajo el cielo de la noche’ at Boiler Room, Luis Adelantado Gallery, Valencia; and ‘A Strange Fairytale’ at Pradiauto Gallery, ArteSantander, Santander; or ‘La Espera’, also with Pradiauto, in Madrid. In addition, her work has been part of various group exhibitions, such as the group presentation of the Miquel Casablancas Prize 2023 in Barcelona; ‘Malas Hierbas’ at CasaBanchel, Madrid, in 2024; ‘Una exposición oral’ at Sant Andreu Contemporani, Barcelona; and ‘Garden Shed’ at Villa Bergerie, in Huesca, in 2023, among others.
Elisa Pardo Puch has also participated in various artistic residencies, such as the current one at GlogauAIR, Berlin, from January to June 2024, where she created the work for the exhibition Quienes vagan curiosos por mil maravillas; the Residency at Villa Bergerie, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Huesca, 2023; Artist in Residence Munich, 2022; or the Matadero Artist Residency Programme. CRA Matadero, Madrid, 2020. Pardo Puch has received numerous awards such as the Miquel Casablancas Prize (finalist), Barcelona, 2023; Acquisition Prize at Nada Sobra, Nebrija University, Madrid, 2017; and Special Mention at Getxoarte, Bilbao, 2016.
She has participated in numerous exhibitions such as ‘Metal Heart: lo que pesa’ at Departamento, Bilbao; ‘Bajo el cielo de la noche’ at Boiler Room, Luis Adelantado Gallery, Valencia; and ‘A Strange Fairytale’ at Pradiauto Gallery, ArteSantander, Santander; or ‘La Espera’, also with Pradiauto, in Madrid. In addition, her work has been part of various group exhibitions, such as the group presentation of the Miquel Casablancas Prize 2023 in Barcelona; ‘Malas Hierbas’ at CasaBanchel, Madrid, in 2024; ‘Una exposición oral’ at Sant Andreu Contemporani, Barcelona; and ‘Garden Shed’ at Villa Bergerie, in Huesca, in 2023, among others.
Elisa Pardo Puch has also participated in various artistic residencies, such as the current one at GlogauAIR, Berlin, from January to June 2024, where she created the work for the exhibition Quienes vagan curiosos por mil maravillas; the Residency at Villa Bergerie, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Huesca, 2023; Artist in Residence Munich, 2022; or the Matadero Artist Residency Programme. CRA Matadero, Madrid, 2020. Pardo Puch has received numerous awards such as the Miquel Casablancas Prize (finalist), Barcelona, 2023; Acquisition Prize at Nada Sobra, Nebrija University, Madrid, 2017; and Special Mention at Getxoarte, Bilbao, 2016.