George Condo Explores the Psyche Through "Pastels"

George Condo's latest exhibitions, Pastels, take over Sprüth Magers and Hauser & Wirth in New York, spotlighting his inventive approach to the pastel medium. Known for pushing boundaries, Condo's new works abandon preparatory sketches, relying instead on instinctive gestures, gesso layers and bold color fields to delve into the complexities of the human psyche.At Hauser & Wirth, a series of fractured, geometric portraits--what Condo calls his "bizarre characters"--lay bare the inner conflicts o...