LOS ANGELES, CA.- Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are presenting What's the Point?, an exhibition of new paintings by George Condo at Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles. One of the most significant artists of the last several decades, Condo creates works that dramatically bridge an array of painterly approaches, moods, and influences from diverse fields such as art history, music, philosophy, and popular culture. The artist’s compositions often begin with the human figure, rendered variously in fluid networks of black lines and interlacing planes of bold color that move seamlessly between controlled precision and unabashed exuberance. His canvases tap into the extremes of human emotion and, at a moment of crisis in American and global politics, a sense of mania and disorder that nonetheless holds out hope for progress and resolution. The paintings in What’s the Point? demonstrate the breadth of Condo’s artistic references, for example, from seventeenth-century portraiture of beggars and thieves found in the work of Dutch and Italian masters, to his own compendium of painterly gestures, which together form a trenchant picture of contemporary human consciousness.

George Condo (*1957, Concord, Massachusetts, USA) lives and works in New York. This spring, his work will be featured in the 58th Venice Biennale, May You Live In Interesting Times. Recent solo exhibitions include those at Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, and Maritime Museum, Hong Kong (both 2018), Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark (both 2017), and Museum Berggruen, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (2016). His major retrospective, MentalStates, was jointly organized by the New Museum, New York, and the Hayward Gallery, London, and after opening at the New Museum, traveled to Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Hayward Gallery, and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2010-2012). Condo’s work has also been the subject of exhibitions at Musée Maillol, Paris (2009); Museum der Moderne, Salzburg (2005); Bergen Art Museum, Bergen (2002), Palais des Congrès, Paris (1995), and Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (1994-1995). The artist has been included in group exhibitions worldwide, including the 55th Venice Biennale (2013), 13e Biennale de Lyon (2015), Whitney Biennial (1987, 2010), and others at Grand Palais, Paris (2015), Deichtorhallen Hamburg (2015); Kunsthalle Zurich (2012); Kunstmuseum Luzern (2008); Kunstmuseum Bern (2006 -2007); Museum of Modern Art, New York (1994, 1992); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (1994); Musée du Luxembourg, Paris (1990).

The Los Angeles gallery is concurrently presenting an exhibition by Thea Djordjadze.