A show by celebrated artist George Condo will mark the debut of Hauser & Wirth’s new West Hollywood art gallery, scheduled to open in February.
Condo’s visuals play on Old Master portraiture with allusions to contemporary American culture. “Populated by a cast of characters whose bulging eyes, bulbous cheeks, proliferating limbs and hideous over- or under-bites mark them apart as a singular species, Condo’s art is profoundly original,” the Simon Lee Gallery describes.
The new show will be called “People Are Strange,” a nod to the The Doors’ hit song. Hauser & Wirth’s calls Condo’s pieces “fragmented portraits and abstractions that echo LA’s sublime dissonance.”
Hauser & Wirth President Marc Payot announced the new gallery in June; it’s the company’s second Los Angeles-area location. The gallery, which contains 5,000 square feet of exhibition space, will be housed in the former Heritage Classics Motorcar Company building at 8980 Santa Monica Blvd.
This space is amazing, excited to see the exhibition!
Opening in WeHo with art by an old, white, heterosexual, cisgender man seems like a bad idea. I’ve enjoyed their other galleries, so this is disappointing.
It’s always good to open one’s mind. Not glad to see how prejudiced your statement appears here while requesting tolerance from others.
I believe there will also be a restaurant in the space.