George Condo: The Insane Queen, 2006
Oil on canvas, 20 x 16 in (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
Collection Per Skarstedt
© George Condo 2010
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George Condo: Mental States
GERMANY
FRANKFURT • Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt • Ongoing
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First seen at The New Museum in New York in the spring of 2011, George Condo: Mental States arrives at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt. This major survey of over eighty paintings and sculptures dates from the past twenty-eight years of the artist’s career. The exhibition is organized thematically and stylistically in “chapters” developed in close collaboration with George Condo (b. 1957, New Hampshire).
Highlights include an installation of more than fifty portraits demonstrating a variety of styles and subjects. This “portrait wall,” hung salon-style, is populated by invented characters that often assimilate and appropriate elements from masterpieces by Western artists of the past 500 years, from Velázquez to Picasso to Arshile Gorky. This collection of imaginary characters is a blend of recognizable figures and archetypes rendered in Condo’s particular form of artificial realism: butlers, businessmen, saints, and historical figures are familiar in spite of their often fantastic or humorously grotesque features. Complementing the portrait wall is a series of sixteen patinated gold sculptures.
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt Website
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Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
Römerberg
60311 Frankfur
Germany
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