In Conversation: George Condo and Isabelle Dervaux

On the occasion of George Condo’s two-part exhibition ‘Pastels,’ spanning galleries at both Sprüth Magers and Hauser & Wirth in New York City, the gallery hosted a conversation with the artist and Isabelle Dervaux. The exhibition at the gallery's Wooster Street location offers a glimpse into the artist’s creative process and unbound inventiveness through the medium of pastel. Condo’s new works challenge the limits of improvisation within this medium—spontaneously deploying gesso, fields of color and dramatic pastel gestures, all without the benefit of preparatory sketches—to express various states of the human psyche. The artist embraces the act of abstraction within a figural framework in novel ways, materializing the fragmented, elusive nature of ineffable thoughts and feelings. – Hauser & Wirth is an international contemporary and modern art gallery with spaces in Zurich, London, Somerset, New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Gstaad, St. Moritz, Monaco, Menorca, Paris and Basel. – Subscribe to Hauser & Wirth’s YouTube: https://youtube.com/@HauserWirth Sign up to Hauser & Wirth’s Newsletter: hauserwirth.com/subscribe Follow Hauser & Wirth on: https://instagram.com/hauserwirth/ https://facebook.com/hauserwirth/ https://twitter.com/HauserWirth