Flat Wares.

Jorge Pardo, known for blurring distinctions between art, craft, design, and architecture, has created everything from small, quasi-functional objects to furniture, interior-decor installations, and the house/sculpture in which he lives. At the Kunsthalle Basel (June 17-Aug. 27), Pardo, who is little known for two-dimensional work, will exhibit eighteen massive computer-designed, silk-screened paintings intended to play off the light and volume of the museum's huge Oberlichtsaal (glass-domed space). Simultaneously, at Pratteln, ten minutes outside Basel, a roadside restaurant and service area will get a face-lift courtesy of the artist.