Even in a period of social distancing, the art world continues to turn. Here, we go home, from home, with artists finding inspiration in isolation. We sat down (from afar) with George Condo, whose gloriously grotesque portraiture has taken on new, time...
Well, my approach to art began a lot earlier than the 1980s to be honest. I really started when I was a child of about three years old and kept going ever since. In fact, many of the pictures I made in my teens, like in 1975, were shown in the museum exhibition ‘The Way I Think’ at the Phillips Collection in Washington DC and The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark. And the
acquired one from 1976. The reason I mention this is because in 1984 I did my first of a series of paintings I called the ‘expanding canvases.’ The MoMA has the first one, called. It’s an all-over compositional approach similar to Pollock, but instead of gestures there is this microcosmic interconnection of thousands of actual things, like what you think you see when you look at a Pollock or at static on a television screen, but in my case, it’s delineated.
basically unedited as I go through it. A bit influenced by Kerouac and the way he would just write a manuscript from start to finish.I would say Kandinsky, Picasso, Caravaggio and then about a million others. The reason for the first three is that each of them created their own language which was somehow comprised of everything that came before them and took it to a new level. That’s my intention as an artist.
I’ve been together with violinist Leila Josefowicz for about two years and she only plays 20th century music. Contemporary composers have written masterpieces specifically for her: John Adams, Thomas Adès, Colin Matthews, and others. She would have performed a new piece by Helen Grime with the London Symphony Orchestra but all concerts are cancelled. Orchestral musicians are totally out of work and great pieces being written as we do this interview will have to wait for their premieres.
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