George Condo: Mental States

18 October 2011 - 8 January 2012
Hayward Gallery

Since his emergence in New York's East Village in the early 1980s, George Condo has developed a provocative body of work that, for all its outlandish humour and outrageousness, is deeply engaged with the memory of European and American traditions of painting. Focusing on his 'imaginary portraits', which conjure varied mental states with a mixture of comic absurdity and the heart-rending pathos, and incorporating sculpture as well painting, the exhibition offers a comprehensive survey of
three decades of his art.

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[77GGSS]

I believe that the individual representation of reality after abstraction is now two-dimensionally of the "Alien" in painting. George Condo is the premier manufacturer of this idea in painting. Alienation is based today in technology, spiritual states of consciousness of a modern world politically charged and also, world religions and material forms of consciousness. It also seeks its salvation in a baroque world of colorful excess to assuage the mental dysfunctions correlative to its nature.

[consternation6]

like bernhard buffet but even better

[Atheneastro]

2:03 I love this painting. It kind of looks like a cross between the Lorax and Stimpson J. Cat, but it also has the gravitas of an old master painting.