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Prismatic Head Composition

George Condo

Prismatic Head Composition

2024

21-colour silkscreen on Somerset paper

80.3 × 86 cm

Ed. / 150 — Signed and numbered, including Printed COA

Location: London, United Kingdom

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About the artwork

Produced in 2024,Prismatic Head Composition presents a frontal head broken into overlapping profiles,angular planes and saturated fields of color. Eyes,mouth and facial contours occupy incompatible positions,preventing the image from resolving into a conventional likeness. The twenty-one-color silkscreen process builds a dense,sharply separated surface that echoes the complexity of Condo’s painted portraits. The stated technique is 21-color silkscreen on Somerset paper. It measures approximately 80.3 × 86 cm. Multiple screenprinted layers build the face through overlapping contours,flat planes and contrasting colors. The technical precision of the edition does not resolve the displaced features; it makes each interruption and change of viewpoint more sharply visible.

Expert opinion

The prismatic color divisions intensify the fractured psychology typical of Condo’s invented portraits. Rather than describing a sitter,the work assembles incompatible expressions into a single unstable identity. The technically layered print shows how his artificial realism can move from painting into edition form without losing its visual density. In the context of George Condo’s editions,Prismatic Head Composition is notable because it turns psychological contradiction into a structure of competing faces and viewpoints.

About the artist

George Condo (b. 1957, Concord, New Hampshire) is an American contemporary artist renowned for his psychologically charged and often grotesque approach to figurative painting. Drawing on European Old Masters, Cubism, Surrealism, and popular culture, he combines art-historical references with a highly distinctive visual language. Emerging from New York’s art scene in the early 1980s, alongside figures such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, Condo developed what he calls “Artificial Realism”, the realistic representation of an artificial or invented world. His portraits frequently feature fragmented faces, exaggerated features, and conflicting emotional expressions, exploring the complexity of human identity and psychology. Today, Condo is regarded as a major figure in contemporary painting. His work has been exhibited internationally and is held in prominent museum collections, including MoMA and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Tate in London, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

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