GEORGE CONDO – MENTAL STATES
2011-10-17This is the first major retrospective of the American artist George Condo. 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.
Exhibition runs through to January 8th, 2012
Hayward Gallery
Southbank Centre
Belvedere Rd
London
SE1 8XX
