An image of a detail of the painting The Savior of the Spring by artist Ciro Quintana at Conde Contemporary

The Savior of The Spring | Ciro Quintana

THE JOURNAL

Conversations, essays, and reflections on contemporary art, artists, collecting, and culture.

A photograph of a conceptual work of art by Cuban artist Rubén Torres Llorca, represented by Conde Contemporary, featuring nine photos of the artist's family, each with a piece of vellum over the photo and on the vellum is drawn a mask

The Masked Man

“There is no romanticism in his subject matter, he doesn't overtly try to pull at the viewer's heart strings nor create beauty for beauty's sake. He draws you in with the pretty pictures then politely tells you to go fuck yourself. Obviously, I needed to know more, for I do enjoy complicated men.”

Artist Interviews

Alive & Sacred

A conversation with artist Kevin Sloan on nature, symbolism, and the sacred connections that shape his work.
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An image of a wild painting by Latin American artist Pablo Santibáñez Servat, represented by Conde Contemporary, and featuring a lion, nude acrobats and politically incorrect historical illustration from the turn of the last century.

Are You Offended

Speaking with Pablo Santibáñez Servat on history, symbolism, and the role of context in interpreting challenging imagery.
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Full Circle

Pablo Santibáñez Servat on still life as a vehicle for examining ancestry, identity, and the stories objects carry across generations.
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Artist Profiles

An image of an abstract painting in greens, orange, yellow and blue, potentially of a city and forest, by the Cuban artist Ernesto Capdevila, titled Contemplación, and represented by Conde Contemporary.

The Artist Artist’s Love

A look at the poetic intelligence, quiet rigor, and singular vision that have made Ernesto Capdevila an artist admired by artists.
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An image of a painting of a powerful topless woman manifesting from the SOCIAL series by Cuban artist Andrés Conde for Conde Contemporary

Personal Cosmology

Part personal history, part cultural remembrance, the paintings of
Andrés Conde explore beauty, exile, and the persistence of memory.
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Rubén, Rubén, Rubén

Exploring the wit, intellect, and uncompromising independence that define one of Cuba's most important contemporary artists.
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On Art & Collecting

an image of Andrés Conde's hands with paint in his studio at Conde Contemporary

Poverty by Design

An argument for craftsmanship, generational thinking, and
investing in things built to last.
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An image of a sculpture by an unknown South African sculptor in a collector's private collection, conde contemporary

Collect Yourself

Why the best art collections reveal more about the collector than the artists they contain.
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Emotional Architecture

How art, beauty, memory, and intentional design shape the emotional experience of daily life.
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Exhibitions

A photograph by South African photojournalist Alon Skuy featuring two men in suits laugh while another man picks through garbage in rags, available at Conde Contemporary

Sawubona: I See You

Through painting, photography, and installation, Sawubona asks us not simply to look, but to truly see.
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An image of the painting Chaos by Andrés Conde in process for the Surface and Subtext exhibition, the images shows the woman's image beginning to emerge from the canvas while the background is underneath, available at Conde Contemporary.

Surface & Subtext

An examination of beauty, symbolism, and the tension between appearance and meaning in the work of Andrés Conde.
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No Method to Our Madness

A meditation on intuition, symbolism, and the often-irrational impulses that drive artistic creation.