George Condo United States, b. 1957
Portrait of the Unknown, 1991
oil on canvas
170 x 150 x 2.8 cm
66 14/16 x 59 1/16 x 1 1/16 in
66 14/16 x 59 1/16 x 1 1/16 in
CATALOGUE NOTE It's about dismantling one reality and constructing another from the same parts, and that various concrete objects are not attached to their parts alone. I was thinking of...
CATALOGUE NOTE
It's about dismantling one reality and constructing another from the same parts, and that various concrete objects are not attached to their parts alone. I was thinking of Picasso's bull's head made from a bicycle and Duchamp's ready-mades. Essentially what I am painting is the state in which the image-time of one reality superimposed in a field of another simultaneous presence now becomes a new conjunctive hyper-reality or hybrid image showing the simultaneous presences."
GEORGE CONDO quoted in Ralph Rugoff, George Condo, Existential Portraits: Sculpture, Drawings, Paintings 2005/2006, New York 2006, p. 8
It's about dismantling one reality and constructing another from the same parts, and that various concrete objects are not attached to their parts alone. I was thinking of Picasso's bull's head made from a bicycle and Duchamp's ready-mades. Essentially what I am painting is the state in which the image-time of one reality superimposed in a field of another simultaneous presence now becomes a new conjunctive hyper-reality or hybrid image showing the simultaneous presences."
GEORGE CONDO quoted in Ralph Rugoff, George Condo, Existential Portraits: Sculpture, Drawings, Paintings 2005/2006, New York 2006, p. 8
Provenance
Monika Sprüth Galerie, ColognePrivate Collection, Europe
Acquired from the above by the present owner
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