April, Friday 29th., 2022. George Condo: The Way I Think | Louisiana Channel
April, Friday 29th., 2022
Art is screaming out loud the 'awakened TRUTH', decades before the majority of today's awakened people even imagined to use words such like 'false/ fake news, bots, daily AI, free energy,' etc... ART in all its forms and ways of expression/ manifestation IS One of HUMAN'S highest, most precious values/abilities/wealth/charisma! Maria L. Pelekanaki
PS Is there actually something in the cardinal's mouth, grabbed by his teeth?And what might that possibly be, I wonder...?!m.l.p.
"...that which is real but it also is a representation of what is artificial ..."ARTIFICIAL REALISM" = "allow for the painter to paint someone realistically but to represent that which is artificial ... a very accurate painting of something totally artificial ... and they went down to what they would call artificial personalities...from 1987 to today's 'fake news', everything is artificial realism...politics, news, you don't know what they talk about, all you here is about fake news and then social media and 90% or 30% of everything coming through is being propagated by trolls and bots ... and all this crazy artificial intelligence... everything is artificial realism but it is gone from an artistic concept to a like daily chaotic political concept where we don't really know what realism is at this point... so staged, so scripted, and the scripts are meant to divert or disinform from whatever reality it is actually happening... you don't know what is the reality we are been diverted from..." Mark 20:00' to the video end George Condo
”I always loved drawing for the privacy of it. It’s a cleaner way of making art.”
George
Condo was part of the 1980s wild art scene in New York. In this video,
recorded in his New York-studio, the iconic artist shares his life-long
love of drawing and thoughts on his artistic expression, which he
describes as “artificial realism.” Read less ...
”I
kind of draw like you’re walking through the forest, where you don’t
really know where you’re going, and you just start from some point and
randomly travel through the paper until you get to a place where you
finally reach your destination.” Condo studied music theory at college,
but soon realised that it was too formal and rigid for him, and that he
needed an art form that would give him more freedom. However, he still
approaches his art like a musician, working fast and following the
rhythm of the drawing or painting without “missing any of the notes.”
The tempo, he feels, is very important when it comes to art.
Condo
wants his work to contain clear references to the different artists –
from Picasso to Velasquez – they’re inspired by, but with a twist. His
painting or drawings are about finding a way in which one can capture a
person’s humanity through a portrait – capturing not just the outside
but also the inside. Moreover, Condo aims to “turn negatives into
positives”, portraying “the ordinary characters that make up our lives,
whether it’s the janitor or the bus driver or the school teacher or the
principal or the mailman or the truck driver. These are not the
glamorous people that you see on the cover of Vogue Magazine, but they
are what the world is composed of. And to give them a spot in the world
is what I always admired about Rembrandt to a certain degree…”
“I
love drawing as much as painting, so why not make your paintings from
your drawings, but literally have there be no defined sort of hierarchy
between the two mediums?” Condo started making “drawing-paintings”,
where you can’t distinguish e.g. paint from pastel, or a line made with a
paintbrush or a line drawn in from and thus making the two mediums
equal: “There’s no real difference between figurative painting or
abstract painting, ‘cause it’s all painting to begin with… You don’t’
have to follow any rules as a painter. If you’re making an abstract
painting it doesn’t mean eventually it can’t morph into a figurative
one.”
When a famous art historian asked Condo what he called the
form of work he did, Condo thought of the description “artificial
realism”. Artificial realism gives the painter the opportunity to go
back and paint something in a realistic way while still portraying all
that which is artificial in our world. In continuation of this, he finds
that now everything seems to be “artificial realism” with the fake news
that is all around us: “Art is the truth, and everything else is a
lie.”
George Condo (b. 1957) is an American contemporary visual
artist working in the mediums of painting, drawing, sculpture and
printmaking. Condo mixes input from art history’s masters – such as
Velasquez, Manet and Picasso – with elements of American Pop Art. He
distorts and renews this material so that it stands out and becomes his
own: a kind of strange hybrid that blurs boundaries between the comic
and the tragic, the grotesque and the beautiful, the classic and the
innovative. As part of the wild art scene in New York in the early
1980s, Condo was close to painters such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and
Keith Haring, and worked for Andy Warhol’s Factory, applying diamond
dust to silkscreen. Condo’s work is in the permanent collections of
MoMA, the Whitney Museum, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Broad Foundation in Los
Angeles, Tate Gallery in London, Centre George Pompidou in Paris and
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo, among others. He is the
recipient of an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and
Letters (1999) and the Francis J. Greenberger Award (2005). Condo lives
and works in New York City.
George Condo was interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg at his studio in Soho, New York City in September 2017.
Camera: Jakob Solbakken Produced and edited by: Kasper Bech Dyg Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2017
