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The Arts Intel Report

A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Sacrifice Everything: George Condo's Artificial Realism

Oct 10 – Nov 12, 2019
Bahnhofstrasse 16, 8001 Zürich, Switzerland

“Picasso painted a violin from four different perspectives at one time,” George Condo told BmoreArt in 2017. “I do the same with psychological states.” Unapologetically borrowing tropes from the big guys—painters like Pollock, Bacon, and, especially, Picasso—Condo’s abstract paintings are temporal mashups, cartoonishly kinetic. His Nude and Forms brought $6.16 million at Christie’s last May, which suggests that Condo is a big guy, too. —L.J.