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Email PagePaintings From the Last Ten Years
November 8, 2007- December 20, 2007
George Condo
Nicholas Robinson Gallery
535 W 20th St George Condo The Impossible Dream, (2003) |
The show is a selected survey of paintings designed to illustrate his treatment of portrait figuration, the manner in which he incorporates historical archetypes into his unique morphology, and the evolution of this inquiry in his practice.
Utilizing painterly cues and compositional devices from sources as diverse as Raphael, Rembrandt, Velazquez, and even Cubism and Surrealism, the paintings recall their historical antecedents whilst simultaneously subverting the classicism they hint at.
As Henry Geldzahler said of the work: “it is through a carnival-like burlesque that Condo continually subverts the terms he is using…The many absurd portraits he paints are masks, behind which he works.”
Condo first came to prominence in the early 1980s, coining the term Artificial Realism to describe his cast of characters, their multiple personalities, and the high/low paradox they embody. Based upon figures from life, memory, and imagination, the most successful paintings create a powerful psychological intensity, maintaining an essential tension between mockery, pathos, humor and satire. Executed with dexterous comfort in the traditional medium of oil painting, Condo’s paintings greatly influenced the generation of mannerist painters that followed him.
George Condo was born in 1957 in Concord, New Hampshire. He has exhibited around the World for 25 years and his paintings are included in the permanent collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and many institutions overseas. He has been a visiting lecturer at Harvard University, been the subject of John McNaughton’s feature film “Condo Painting”, and was the recipient of the Academy Award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1999.
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