(Translated from Spanish)
Miguel Condé's Itinerary in The Serge Sorokko Gallery
Paintings, watercolors and drawings on paper made by Miguel Condé between the years 1970 and 2000 form a retrospective at the Serge Sorokko gallery, as a set design where this artist born in Pennsylvania (1939), son of a Mexican father and an American mother, has lived since decades ago in Spain, Sitges, traces a symbolic figuration in which the playful and the ironic point out a human path through time.
Miguel Condé is an outstanding creator who embroiders realities and intuitions with drawing. And he returns to California, with the testimony of a mature work that had its origins in New York when in the 1950s he delved into the study of the arts from an anatomical conception. In 1963, with a scholarship from the French Government, he settled in Paris where he delved into the world of engraving with William Hayter. Upon his return, he taught art at the University of Iowa... and in 1969 he settled in Sitges, without losing his contacts with the United States and France.
It is the production of a skilled, tenacious and imaginative creator who has turned his craft into an experimental field where his complex and detailed compositions give an account and reason for the human journey from a phantasmagoria that reaches the senses. A work that has been shown in numerous groups, has participated in the main art fairs in the world, and exhibited in museums, cultural centers and galleries in Mexico, the United States, France, Spain, Great Britain...; work present in public and private collections such as the MoMA in New York, the Smithsonian in Washington, the Art Institute of Chicago, Reina Sofía in Madrid and Albertina in Vienna, among others.
This retrospective exhibition of the painter Miguel Condé, at the Serge Sorokko gallery, in San Francisco, California, will remain open until October 19, 2013
