Book Launch with George Condo @ The Strand
The Strand presents George Condo in conversation with Massimiliano Gioni and Dakis Joannou for the launch of the newly published catalogue The Mad and the Lonely.
Join us for a launch event with American visual artist George Condo, discussing his new art catalogue, George Condo: The Mad and the Lonely. Condo will be joined in conversation by New Museum Artistic Director Massimiliano Gioni and Cypriot collector Dakis Joannou.
Wednesday, March 25 at 19:00
Strand Bookstore, NY
Rare Book Room, 3rd foor
828 Broadway on 12th Street
New York, NY 10003
Purchase tickets here.
The catalogue documents Condo’s 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.
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.
