About this Event
Moderating this discussion between George Condo and Cypriot collector, Dakis Joannou, is Artistic Director Massimiliano Gioni. This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's 3rd-floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street.
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Probing the many sites and sources of inspiration for Condo's vivid, paranoiac paintings and totemic sculptures
This catalog documents Condo's (born 1957) exhibition The Mad and The Lonely, the site-specific installation at the DESTE Foundation's Project Space at the Slaughterhouse on the island of Hydra in Greece, which included a number of small-scale paintings and sculptures selected from the artist's long career and recontextualized in the storied space. With a vivid 40-page leporello, this square hardcover book includes a text by Dakis Joannou and an essay by Condo himself that probes the many sites and sources of inspiration for The Mad and The Lonely.
Photo credit: Michael Huard
The paintings, drawings, and sculptural work of George Condo offer a virtuosic examination of a wide range of art-historical idioms, which he transforms into his own visual language. He depicts grotesque, tragicomic, and sometimes monstrous subjects with stylistic elements from seventeenth-century Venetian or Dutch painting, but also Cubism, Surrealism, and Pop Art.
Photo credit: Alexia Antsakli
Dakis Joannou established DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art in 1983. Through its exhibition space in Athens, DESTE engages in an extensive exhibition program that promotes emerging as well as established artists and aims to broaden the audience for contemporary art, enhance opportunities for young artists, and explore the connections between contemporary art and culture. In 2009, DESTE opened Projectspace Slaughterhouse on the island of Hydra, which hosts annual site-specific exhibitions.
Photo credit: Marco De Scalzi
Massimiliano Gioni is the Artistic Director of the New Museum in New York City. He has curated numerous international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale, the Berlin Biennale, Manifesta, and the Gwangju Biennale, among many others. His exhibitions have been presented in museums across the world, including the Aishti foundation, Beirut, Athens, Qatar Museums, Doha, Long Museum, Shanghai, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Fondazione Trussardi, Milan, among many others. A frequent collaborator of the Deste Foundation, he has curated and co-curated more than a dozen exhibitions in Athens.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Strand Book Store, 828 Broadway, New York, United States
USD 13.61 to USD 60.06
