George Condo’s exhibition ‘Pastels’ at Hauser & Wirth Gallery, New York City, offers a glimpse into the artist’s creative process and unbound inventiveness through the medium of pastel. Condo’s new works challenge the limits of improvisation within this medium. We see spontaneously deployed gesso, fields of color and dramatic pastel gestures, all without the benefit of preparatory sketches.
Condo expresses and navigates various states of the human psyche. He embraces the act of abstraction within a figural framework in novel ways, materializing the fragmented, elusive nature of ineffable thoughts and feelings.
The exhibition comprises a new series of puzzle-like portraits, which the artist has dubbed his ‘bizarre characters,’ their visages simultaneously splintered and affixed by bright geometric planes. The jagged electricity created by the faceted compositions of these works signals the complex and often conflicted nature of the mind.
This suite of recent works forms a visual essay on the flair and diversity of Condo’s draftsmanship, exceptional sense of color, and mastery of any material.
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