Michael Klug, "George Condo Improvises the Post-Pandemic Blues and What Comes Next", WhiteWall, 23 September 2021, online (illustrated)

Artist Biography

b.1957
George Condo came up in the New York art world at a time when art favored brazen innuendo and shock.
Student to Warhol, best friend to Basquiat and collaborator with William S. Burroughs, Condo tracked a different path. He was drawn to the endless inquiries posed by the aesthetics and formal considerations of Caravaggio, Rembrandt and the Old Masters. Condo frequently cites Picasso as an explicit source in his contemporary cubist compositions and joyous use of paint.
Condo is known for neo-Modernist compositions staked in wit and the grotesque, which draw the eye into a highly imaginary world.

The artist’s ongoing retrospective The Mad and the Lonely is hosted by the DESTE Foundation on the Greek island of Hydra, until 31st October. Condo was the subject of a solo exhibition at the National Museum Monaco (MC, 2023) and a large-scale retrospective at the Long Museum in Shanghai titled The Picture Gallery in 2021. Condo’s works are collected on a prestigious international scale, appearing in the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Tate Modern in London, the Broad Collection in Los Angeles, and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark.