GEORGE CONDO – LIFE IS WORTH LIVING
2017-10-23In his new exhibition “Life is Worth Living”, a title taken from an old note he once sent to his long-time friend Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, George Condo will exhibit works that include paintings and sculpture he made while living in Paris in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s in conversation with his most recent works made in the past year. During this earlier period in his career Condo’s paintings experimented with combining a variety of media and painterly styles simultaneously, such as the use of oil and collage on canvas with very delicate linear forms as seen in Les Quatre Femmes (1989, oil and collage on canvas, 200 x 250 cm). Works such as The Headless Harlequin (1989, oil on canvas, 220 x 189.8 cm) and When the Elephant Says No… (1986, oil on canvas, 206 x 318.2 cm) exemplify Condo’s use of drawing and painting together in a structurally destructive method of working that the artist has employed throughout much of his career to the present day.
Opposite – Back Channel, 2016-2017
Exhibition runs through to November 18th, 2017
Almine Rech Gallery
64 Rue de Turenne
75003 Paris
