The Inner Temple, (2021)

Acrylic and oil stick on canvas
132.1 x 119.4 cm / 52 x 47 inches

About the art

‘The Inner Temple’ (2021) combines what he calls “the lamentation” of a post-Covid world with the fragmented pictorial planes established by George Braque and Picasso, and the monochromatic, moody palette of Picasso’s ‘Blue Period’. 

 

About the artist

George Condo (b.1957) is an American painter, sculptor, printmaker and draftsman. Born in Concord, New Hampshire he moved to New York in his early twenties, where he soon became a central figure in the East Village art scene, and witnessed firsthand the cultural collision of New Wave music, graffiti and visual appropriation tactics in art. Condo’s idiosyncratic approach to painting was born during this time. As well as working as a silk-screen printer for Andy Warhol, he studied Old Master glazing techniques in Los Angeles, before going on to combine influences from Cubism, Surrealism, and other 20th-century avant-garde movements with cartoon characters and pop culture in his work. Even decades later, these irreverent juxtapositions are still hallmarks of his style. 

Image courtesy of Dan Bradica and Hauser & Wirth