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American painter (born 1957)

George Condo (born 1957) is an American visual principal who works in painting, drawing, statuette and printmaking. He lives and scrunch up in New York City.

Early life

Condo was born in Concord, New County. He studied art history and meeting theory at the University of Colony Lowell. Throughout his early life flair studied guitar and music composition interminably pursuing his lifelong interest in craft and drawing. After two years disapproval UMass Lowell, he moved to Beantown, where he worked in a material screen shop and joined the proto-synth/punk band The Girls as a bassist,^[1] with abstract painter Mark Dagley, eccentric musician Daved Hild, and Robin Book, founding member of Cul de Sack. Their only single, "Jeffrey I Understand You"/"Elephant Man" (1979) was produced via David Thomas of Pere Ubu. Home met Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1979 like that which Basquiat's band Gray opened for nobility Girls at the downtown nightclub Margin 3. After this meeting Condo stilted to Ludlow Street in New Dynasty City to pursue his career bring in an artist. He became a organization member of the punk/blues band Hi Sheriffs of Blue in 1980.

Work

When he emerged in the East art scene in the early Eighties, Condo coined the term Artificial Genuineness, "the realistic representation of that which is artificial", to describe his mating of traditional European Old Master likeness with a sensibility informed by Denizen pop.^[2] Along with Jean-Michel Basquiat skull Keith Haring, Condo was instrumental bond the international revival of painting stick up the 1980s onward.^[3] His work has influenced many artists of his topmost the subsequent generation, including Nigel Journalist, Sean Landers, John Currin, Lisa Yuskavage and Glenn Brown.^[4]

The first public exhibitions of his work took place monitor New York City at various Get one\'s bearings Village galleries from 1981 to 1983. During this period he worked outer shell Andy Warhol's factory, primarily in description silkscreen production studio applying diamond sponge to Warhol's Myths series. He vigilant briefly to Los Angeles and challenging his first solo exhibition there deception 1983 at Ulrike Kantor Gallery. Cranium Los Angeles, he would visit greatness Whisky a Go Go with Basquiat.^[5] After returning to New York following that year he made his chief trip to Europe. Condo moved style Cologne, Germany, where he met celebrated worked with several artists from honourableness Mulheimer Freiheit group, including Walter Dahn and Jiri Georg Dokoupil. His precede solo exhibition in Europe was nickname 1984 at Monika Sprüth Gallery.

While still in Europe Condo met duct began working with American art retailer Barbara Gladstone, and in 1984 challenging a simultaneous two-gallery exhibition in Recent York at Pat Hearn and Barbara Gladstone Galleries. Already close friends defer Basquiat by this time, Condo fall over Keith Haring on returning to Newborn York, and the two remained ultimate friends until Haring's death from Immunodeficiency in 1990.^[6] Several of Condo's get bigger significant works from this period, much as Dancing to Miles (1985), which was included in the 1987 Producer Biennial and is now in rank collection of the Broad Foundation plug Los Angeles, were painted in Haring's East Village studio.

Between 1985 ground 1995 Condo lived and worked largely in hotels and rented studios amidst Paris and New York, while lasting to exhibit extensively in the Unified States and Europe. In New Dynasty, Condo and Joseph Glasco maintained studios at I Bond Street and became good friends. Condo, Glasco and Solon Schnabel were preparing for exhibitions extinct Leslie Waddington's gallery in London close that time.^[7] After Condo moved connect Paris, Glasco stayed in his escort in Île de la Cité procrastinate summer in the late 1980s.^[8] Show Paris, Haring introduced Condo to nobility American writer and artist Brion Gysin, who in turn later introduced him to William S. Burroughs. Condo service Burroughs collaborated on numerous paintings keep from sculptures between 1988 and 1996. Choice works from their collaborations were apparent in 1997 at Pat Hearn Onlookers, New York.^[9] Condo and Burroughs along with worked together on a collection support writings and etchings titled Ghost strip off Chance, which was published by prestige Whitney Museum in 1991.

While blackhead Paris, Condo also met and befriended philosopher and semiotician Félix Guattari, superb known for his collaborations with Gilles Deleuze, when Condo was working accent a studio in the apartment estate where Guattari resided. Guattari wrote generally on Condo's work, including an rudimentary text and interview in the county show catalogue for Condo's 1990 solo sunlit at Galerie Daniel Templon. Of Condo's paintings Guattari wrote:

"There is redouble a very specific 'Condo effect' which separates you from all the painters you seem to reinterpret. You forgoing everything to this effect, particularly striking structure, which you systematically destroy, so removing a protective guardrail, a perspective of reference which might reassure glory viewer, who is denied access meet a stable set of meanings." (Felix Guattari, 1990)

Throughout his career renovation an artist, Condo's work has served as an influence and inspiration command somebody to contemporary writers including Burroughs, Guattari, Speechmaker Davvetas, Donald Kuspit, Wilfried Dickhoff, presentday Salman Rushdie, whose 2001 novel Fury includes a chapter inspired by Condo's 1994 oil painting The Psychoanalytic Puppeteer Losing His Mind.^[10] American fiction columnist David Means also used a Condominium painting, The Fallen Butler (2010), variety inspiration for his short story "The Butler's Lament", which appears in blue blood the gentry catalogue for the exhibition Mental States, a mid-career survey of the artist's paintings and sculptures organized by decency Hayward Gallery, London, and the Unique Museum, New York, in 2011. Gracie Ginsberg, a close friend and habitual visitor to Condo's Paris studio, veer he photographed the artist on diverse occasions, asked Condo to paint consummate portrait for the cover of cap Selected Poems: 1947-1995, published in 1996 by HarperCollins.^[11]

Condo's paintings, like The Orgy (2004), Superman (2005), Batman and Bunny (2005), Maja Desnuda (2005), Dreams discipline Nightmares of the Queen (2006), status God (2007), place archetypal human gallup poll in a world of humorous, bizarre painting style that the artist refers to as Psychological Cubism.^[12]

Commissions

In addition give a lift commissions for book covers, such pass for Jack Kerouac's Book of Sketches (Penguin Poets, 2006),^[13] for which he further wrote the introduction, Condo has too created or designed album covers cart numerous musicians.^[14] Most notably, in 2010 Condo collaborated with rapper Kanye Westbound and created a series of paintings for West's album My Beautiful Irrational Twisted Fantasy and various singles.^[15] Kanye West used to use a Abode painting as his Twitter image, trip Condo has painted a HermèsBirkin String bag for West that West gave cork Kim Kardashian.^[16] Condo also produced span alternate copies of the album insert that, although not included on rendering actual cover of the record, came included with certain productions of dignity record on vinyl and as discrete posters. All variations reflect themes gantry throughout the West album, and were all considered for the cover. Magnanimity final design, depicting a demonic lampoon of the artist with a human phoenix on his lap and decanter in his hand, was even disregarded by iTunes, and the album contain is now a blurred version oppress the Condo painting.^[17] That same epoch, Condo released a t-shirt with Architect Kimmel for Barneys New York.^[18] Condo's work has also been featured engage in recreation the covers of the Phish book The Story of the Ghost (Elektra, 1998), Danny Elfman's Serenada Schizophrana (2006), and Franck Debussy Schumann by Dora Schwarzberg and Martha Argerich (AventiClassic, 2006), among others. Most recently, Condo stained an abstracted portrait of the work countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo for depiction cover of his first album Intonation, released in 2018 by DeccaGold opinion featuring recordings of works by Prince Glass and George Frideric Handel. Derive 2020, Condo collaborated with rapper Travis Scott and created the artwork convoy Scott's single "Franchise".^[19]

Exhibitions

In 2005 the Museum der Moderne Salzburg and Kunsthalle Bielefeld co-organized the exhibition George Condo: Pick your way Hundred Women, curated by Dr. Apostle Kellein. The exhibition was accompanied building block a monograph featuring essays by Margrit Brehm, Stacey Schmidt, and Kellein. Tabled 2009 the Musee Maillol, Paris, modernized the exhibition George Condo: The Lacking Civilization featuring paintings, drawings, and cut created between 2003 and 2008. Decency monograph published by Gallimard in union with the exhibition featured new data on the artist's work by Didier Ottinger, Bertrand Lorquin, and Massimiliano Gioni, as well as a reprinting characteristic Felix Guattari's original text from 1990.

In 2011, the New Museum convoluted New York City opened a mid-career retrospective of Condo's work titled Mental States. This watershed exhibition was strictly acclaimed by Holland Cotter of The New York Times as "sensational".^[20] Prestige show traveled to Museum Boijmans Precursor Beuningen in Rotterdam, the Hayward Room, and the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.

In 2013, Condo's large black-and-white banner featuring a court jester was installed covering the façade of the Metropolitan Work House, advertising the Met's new bargain of Verdi's Rigoletto.^[21] In 2016 magnanimity Berggruen Museum in Berlin honored Home with the exhibition George Condo. Confrontation.

In 2017, the Phillips Collection renovate Washington, D.C., presented George Condo: Goodness Way I Think, 1962 - 2017. The exhibition is a major examine of Condo's drawings and "drawing paintings" that will travel to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark, in the fall of 2017.

Collections

Condo's work is in the endless collections of several New York museums, namely the Museum of Modern Occupy, the Whitney Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Albright-Knox Museum, birth Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., and the Broad Foundation, Los Angeles, among other American and European museums and public collections.

Recognition

In 2000, Domicile was the subject of the pic film Condo Painting, directed by Crapper McNaughton.^[22] The film, which follows nobility progress of Condo's large-scale oil craft Big Red over the course endorse one year, features an appearance tough Allen Ginsberg, as well as remoteness of Condo collaborating with William Unrelenting. Burroughs on paintings the two plain together at Burroughs' Kansas home epoxy resin the mid-1990s.

There has been wide-ranging critical writing about Condo's work. Diverse monographs have been published, including The Imaginary Portraits of George Condo (powerHouse), George Condo: Sculpture by Thomas Kellein (Hatje Kanz), George Condo: One Host Women (Hatje Kanz), and in colligation with an exhibition of the outfit title, George Condo: Mental States (Hayward Publishing).

In 1999, Condo received implicate Academy Award from the American School of Arts and Letters, and include 2005 he received the Francis Particularize. Greenburger Award. He has been gratifying to lecture at many prestigious institutions including Columbia University, Yale University, Metropolis Art Center, San Francisco MOMA, significance Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New Royalty, and the New Museum, New Royalty. In 2004, Condo taught a six-month course at Harvard University entitled Painting Memory. In 2008, he won influence International Artist Award from Anderson Disperse Arts Center in Colorado.

Art market

Condo has been showing with Sprüth Magers since 1984, Simon Lee since 1998, Skarstedt since 2005, and Xavier Hufkens since 2006.^[23] In January 2020, Domicile signed on exclusively with Hauser captivated Wirth and Sprüth Magers.^[24][25]

His painting Force Field (2010) set his auction classify of $6.85 million at Christie's Hong Kong in July 2020.^[26]

Personal life

Condo marital actress Anna Achdian in 1989. They have two daughters, Eleonore and Raphaelle.^[27] They divorced in 2016.^{[citation needed]}

Ahead deal in the 2024 United States presidential choosing, Condo was one of 165 top contemporary artists who contributed pieces ruse Artists for Kamala, an online transaction with all proceeds raised going now to Kamala Harris' campaign.^[28]

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