{"id":50351,"date":"2023-08-30T11:23:22","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T09:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cycladic.gr\/ektheseis\/george-condo-at-cycladic-2\/"},"modified":"2024-04-08T13:41:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T11:41:23","slug":"george-condo-at-cycladic-2","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/cycladic.gr\/en\/ektheseis\/george-condo-at-cycladic-2\/","title":{"rendered":"George Condo at Cycladic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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George Condo at Cycladic<\/h1>

CONTEMPORARY ART<\/p>

JUNE 8 UNTIL OCTOBER 14, 2018<\/p><\/header>

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THE EXHIBITION<\/h2> <\/header>\n\n \n
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\n Rather than a chronological display of the artist\u2019s oeuvre in the form of a retrospective, George Condo\u2019s (b. 1957) first solo exhibition at a museum in Greece held at the Museum of Cycladic Art, has been a selection of paintings, drawings, and sculptures that implored us to explore the human figure, a principal theme of the Museum\u2019s contemporary art exhibitions program.\n <\/div>\n \n \n<\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n
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Condo, along with Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and Jeff Koons, was instrumental in reviving figuration in America in the 1980s and is considered one of the most important American figurative sculptors and painters to this day. He belongs to a generation of artists who had to work their way backwards into realism, seeing that at the time, in a post Abstract-Expressionist landscape, figuration had been put on hold while Conceptual Art and Minimalism were at the forefront of artistic practices. Balancing between the beautiful and the grotesque, the mundane and the absurd, high art and commercial \u2018pop\u2019 art, Condo\u2019s fresh artistic creations make of him one of the most inventive artists of his generation.<\/p>\n

The exhibition George Condo at Cycladic aimed to showcase the references, ideas, and mastered skills collected by the artist over time. Condo\u2019s practice is rooted in the representation of the self or, as he puts it, one\u2019s ‘many selves’, referencing the art, philosophy, and literature of the past. Playing with both time and iconography, Condo has looked to Greek Classical art, seventeenth-century Dutch old master painters, as well as Francisco Goya, Diego Velasquez, and Pablo Picasso among others.<\/p>\n

In his very personal and singular iconic manner Condo ignites in our mind entire stories about each of his protagonists. The very physiognomy of his subjects is studied and exploited materializing into a new form of portraiture, which evidently combines elements of Cubism, Surrealism, notions of high and low art, abstraction versus figuration, and often the grotesque side of life; for the ultimate goal to portray the complexity of the human mental state of our times.<\/p>\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

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