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| Uncle Joe, 2005 |
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Mental States is George Condo’s retrospective exhibition, which presents his artistic
journey from early beginnings in 1980s until present day. The show concentrates
mainly on the portraiture work of the artist, with big emphasis on his deformed
depictions of Queen Elizabeth II. The style of Condo’s paintings could be best
described as Picasso meets Looney Tunes.
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| The Stockbroker, 2002 |
My favourite piece has
to be Uncle Joe, which portraits
bottom-half naked, drunken man enjoying a bottle of wine and a smoke in the
nature. There is something completely mad about this portrayal, as the
‘lightness of being’, which is communicated through the body language of the
subject of this idyllic scene, is completely contradicted in his insane face
expression of a pathological alcoholic.
George Condo’s
paintings are moralistic, but with a twist of (dark) humour, that lots of
today’s artist do not have. The art world is full of serious wannabe preachers,
who in a school-like manner try to enlighten the rest of society, with their
dull discoveries about the meaning of life. Who cares? I don’t think anybody
likes to go to an exhibition in their spare time to be patronized by some
schmuck with a fine art degree. To lecture, but entertain at the same time is a
grand ability, which George Condo possesses
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| Lady Crimp, 1984 |
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| Dreams and Nightmares of the Queen, 2006 |
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