Gallardo, Carlos

Carlos Gallardo was a multifaceted visual artist who combined multiple artistic disciplines throughout his career. He was a renowned Visual Artist, Set Designer, Costume Designer, and a celebrated Graphic Designer. In 2007, he received the prestigious Benois de la Danse award in Moscow for his set and costume design for Mauricio Wainrot's "La Tempestad".

As a Visual Communication Designer, Carlos Gallardo served as Art Director for the Teatro San Martín in Buenos Aires, Editorial Abril, Editorial Hispamérica, and Ediciones Summa. In 1984, after winning the Design Biennial for his renowned posters for the Teatro San Martín, he began a long and intense collaboration with choreographer Mauricio Wainrot, creating sets and costumes for over 40 works by the Argentine choreographer, premiered in 45 dance and ballet companies across Europe, America, and Asia.

Among his notable set and costume designs are those for "Carmina Burana," "A Streetcar Named Desire," "Anne Frank," "The Rite of Spring," "The 8 Seasons," "The Firebird," "Symphony of Psalms," "Crossings," "Beyond Memory," "Medea," "4 Janis for Joplin," and "Messiah," for companies such as the Royal Ballet of Flanders, Belgium, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Royal Swedish Ballet, The English National Ballet, Balleto del Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Ballet Florida, Juilliard Dance Ensemble in the United States, Bat dor Dance Company of Israel, Ballet of Teatro Colón, Ballet Argentino, National Company of Mexico, National Ballet of Chile, and Ballet de Santiago de Chile.

As a visual artist, he exhibited at art fairs including Art Chicago, ARCO, New York Art Fair, Arte BA, Basel Miami Art Fair, Basel Art Fair in Switzerland, Foire d'Art de Bruxelles, and FIAC de Paris. He held solo exhibitions in galleries in Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, Miami, Wiesbaden, Frankfurt, Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Santiago de Chile, and Buenos Aires.

Gallardo's works and installations have been invited and exhibited in solo exhibitions at institutions such as the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, Musée d'Art Contemporain in Nice, Carrillo Gil Museum in Mexico, Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires, Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago de Chile, Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires in the Cronopios Room, and the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires. Theorists, curators, and critics such as Dore Ashton, Normand Biron, Michael O'Sullivan, Ana María Battistozzi, Jorge Glusberg, Stephan Rey, Guy Gilsoul, Fabian Legenblik, Edward Shaw, Alicia de Arteaga, Corinne Sacca-Abadi, Victoria Verlichak, Lucas Fragaso, Irma Arestizabal, Leo Rosshandler, Wim Toebosch, Jorge López Anaya, Ann Duncan, and Ramón Castillo have contributed prologues to catalogs of his exhibitions and written notes and articles about his work. In 1997, he represented Argentina at the Biennial of Memory in Havana.