SOCIAL ART: George Condo-The Mad and the Lonely in Hydra Island

On June 18, inaugurated the exhibition “The Mad and the Lonely”, by George Condo at Deste Foundation’s project space the former Slaughterhouse in Hydra island. The exhibition features a number of small-scale paintings and sculptures selected from the artist’s long-standing career. Following in the tradition of portraiture, the works in the exhibition offer depictions of the disparate souls in life, who have been rejected by society and who linger between states of madness and loneliness. Victims of their own internal circumstances, these characters are rendered in the abstracted, often eerie but, at the same time, humanoid-like manner that is distinctive of George Condo’s idiosyncratic style.-Efi Michalarou

Photo: Inauguration of the exhibition “George Condo: The Mad and the Lonely”, Hydra Island, 2024, Photo: © & Courtesy Dimitris Lempesis

Info: DESTE Foundation Project Space, Slaughterhouse, Hydra, Hydra island, Greece, Duration: 18/6-31/10/2024, Days & Hours: Wed-Mon 11:00-13:00 & 19:00-22:00, https://deste.gr/