Gianfranco Pardi was born in Milan in 1933, where he lives and works.
By the end of the '60s, his artistic research was based on some fundamental points of spatial concept. The relationships between thought and form, form and color, constructiveness and construction, abstraction and concreteness, fullness and emptiness have always been recurrent themes in Gianfranco Pardi's work, either in painting or in sculpture. In Gianfranco Pardi's research, his reinterpretations of historic vanguards such as Abstractionism, Constructivism or neo-Plasticism are essential, which can be found in his works where form is expressed through a “geometric, non-rigid and open sign” that can create a constructive thought.

In 1986, he presented a solo room at the Venice Biennial and participated in La Quadriennale di Roma (Rome Quadrennial). In 1998, his one-man show is held at the Palazzo Reale in Milan and, in 1999, three retrospectives were presented in Germany at Kunstverein in Frankfurt, at the Museum Bochum and at the Kulturhistorisches Museum Stralsund. In 2000, he participated in the Scultura italiana del dopoguerra exhibition at the Castello in Vigevano and, in 2001, in Figure astratte at Palazzo Rospigliosi in Rome.

His relationship with Galleria Fumagalli began in 1994, when some of his works were exhibited and a catalogue with texts by Giovanni Maria Accame was published. Then, in 1996, he presented a one-man show and a catalogue with an interview by Marco Meneguzzo. In 1998, Galleria Fumagalli published a volume with texts by Hans Gunter Golinski, Marco Meneguzzo and Peter Weiermair of the retrospectives in Germany: at Kunstverein in Frankfurt, at the Museum Bochum and at the Kulturhistorisches Museum Stralsund. Still in 1998, in a one-man show, the gallery presented the book Da Saint-Victoire a tangeri – Il viaggio di Pardi, with texts by Giorgio De Michelis. In 2002, an impressive iron sculpture Sheets was presented on the occasion of an exhibition. In 2003, Pardi exhibited his work at Galleria Giò Marconi in Milan. On that occasion, a monograph by Galleria Fumagalli was presented, with texts by Marco Meneguzzo and an extensive critical anthology. In 2004, Galleria Fumagalli presented a series of unpublished photos shot in the city of Tangeri, and also published the book Ne pleure celui qui connut tanger…