The mexican figurative painter, draftsman and etcher Miguel Condé is born in 1939 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United-States). The artist's work was made known in Spain by Juana Mordó, in the gallery of which the artist has exhibited several times since the seventies. He lives and works between Madrid and Sitges, Spain.
Self-taught, with the exception of anatomy studies with Stephen Rogers Peck in New York and etching techniques in

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  The mexican figurative painter, draftsman and etcher Miguel Condé is born in 1939 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United-States). The artist's work was made known in Spain by Juana Mordó, in the gallery of which the artist has exhibited several times since the seventies. He lives and works between Madrid and Sitges, Spain.
  Self-taught, with the exception of anatomy studies with Stephen Rogers Peck in New York and etching techniques in Stanley William Hayter’s Atelier 17 in Paris.
  Miguel Condé is a genuinely cosmopolitan artist. Born in the United States of a Mexican father he has always been linked to both cultures although he has also always felt a strong fascination towards Europe, to the point that he could be considered French or Spanish as well. His artistic creation has benefited from this circumstance, always unsettling, filled with echoes of other times and other cultures, but also unmistakably his. As passionate about drawing as were the Italian Quattrocentists or the Flemish primitives, Condé has been for years one of the artists who has cultivated etching with more depth and enthusiasm, a fact evident in his successive exhibitions. The painting of Miguel Condé, who has never renounced the figurative, is peopled with magic personages who soon establish a dialogue with the spectator, sprinkled with Medieval, Oriental and Renaissance references. He presents his world to us in a timeless frame, inviting us to rethink humanistic discourse long forgotten or relegated to our subconscious, all enveloped in an atmosphere of intense color and elegance. His work, which seduces us with its pictorial knowledge and cultural refinement, embodies painting of the highest quality. Fluid and expressive brush strokes, which the artist emphasizes with the firm and decisive lines of a superb draughtsman. Serene chromatic backgrounds, immense passages of color of exquisite elegance, warm color schemes, sienna, ochre, blue, allusions to Venice, non-strident, from where the personages, which depict the highly personal world of the artist, emerge. Transient figures, timeless witnesses of love, of pain, of the anguish of sadness; victims as are we of loneliness, disquieting phantoms that hover distantly, absently, and irremediably trouble us with their serene irony. Unsurprisingly, their author is a man of a profound and ample cosmopolitan culture, which is reflected in his work in a suggestive and enigmatic manner. Condé's work was made known in Spain by Juana Mordó, in the gallery of which the artist has exhibited several times since the seventies.
  Recipient of a Guggenheim Latin American Fellowship and a grant from the French Government,
  Miguel Condé has been awarded various international prizes and is an appointed member of the Société des Peintres-Graveurs Français. His work is represented in numerous museums and collections (The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Cleveland Museum of Art, Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, University of Essex Collection of Latin American Art, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, Albertina in Vienna, Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, etc.).
   

  

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