GEORGE CONDO

An icon of contemporary art since the 1980s, George Condo has developed a unique visual language that reconfigures past and present art movements into a complex synthesis. Sprüth Magers is pleased to present Condo’s twentieth solo exhibition with the gallery since 1984, and his third at Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, extending this decades-long gallery relationship. On view is a suite of seven monumental paintings created live during performances by renowned countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo in the fall of 2018. Responding to the singer’s interpretations of Handel’s Baroque arias and Philip Glass’ minimalist arrangements, Condo painted each work in a single 55-minute period on translucent scrim, backlit so his silhouette remained visible to the audience. Now, for the first time, the paintings are installed together and seen from the artist’s own vantage, forming an unprecedented body of works that endures in time beyond the performance itself. Together they illustrate not only the rhythmic, recursive logic of Condo’s compositional strategies, but also the vibrant, real-time musical energy that yielded them.