The Mad and the Lonely
DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art•Jun 18, 2024 — Oct 31, 2024
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The DESTE Foundation is pleased to present The Mad and the Lonely, an exhibition of works by George Condo.
The show will be on view at DESTE’s Project Space, a former Slaughterhouse on the island of Hydra, between June 18th and October 31st, 2024.
The Mad and the Lonely will feature a number of small-scale paintings and sculptures selected from the artist’s long-standing career. Following in the tradition of portraiture, the works in the exhibition offer depictions of the disparate souls in life, who have been rejected by society and who linger between states of madness and loneliness.
Victims of their own internal circumstances, these characters are rendered in the abstracted, often eerie but, at the same time, humanoid-like manner that is distinctive of George Condo’s idiosyncratic style.
While exploring the art of the past, from the Renaissance and the Baroque, to Cubism, Surrealism, and Pop Art, Condo creates his own visual language by breaking from the formality of traditional…
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The Mad and the Lonely
DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art•Jun 18, 2024 — Oct 31, 2024
Press Release
The DESTE Foundation is pleased to present The Mad and the Lonely, an exhibition of works by George Condo.
The show will be on view at DESTE’s Project Space, a former Slaughterhouse on the island of Hydra, between June 18th and October 31st, 2024.
The Mad and the Lonely will feature a number of small-scale paintings and sculptures selected from the artist’s long-standing career. Following in the tradition of portraiture, the works in the exhibition offer depictions of the disparate souls in life, who have been rejected by society and who linger between states of madness and loneliness.
Victims of their own internal circumstances, these characters are rendered in the abstracted, often eerie but, at the same time, humanoid-like manner that is distinctive of George Condo’s idiosyncratic style.
While exploring the art of the past, from the Renaissance and the Baroque, to Cubism, Surrealism, and Pop Art, Condo creates his own visual language by breaking from the formality of traditional…
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