Lina Condes - web
Lina Condes - web

Lina Condes

Condes imagines her work at the mid-point of a heavy-light, high-low axis. Her stainless steel, fiberglass, wood and stone figures are at once modern and technology driven but also deeply authentic and accessible.

BIO

Lina Condes was born in 1988 in Cherkassy, Ukraine. As an artist of a new generation, Condes incorporates principles of bionic architecture and design into her work. Her sculptures reflect the emptiness and anonymity of common actions that have no attachment to color, creed, gender, religion, language or sexual orientation. They are hysterically self-aware and shameless in their straightforward crudity. Condes renders her works using computer technology, but the end result is far from mechanized. She presents her figures as nameless, featureless entities performing physical acts that only living beings can observe and appreciate.

Solo presentations of Condes’ work have been held at the M17 Contemporary Art Center and in the Trade Chamber of Ukraine in Kiev. In 2016, Condes was awarded the “IEAA Best of International Emerging Artist Award” in Dubai (UAE). In 2017, Condes presented her solo project “Extraterrestrial Odyssey” at the Venice Biennale. Condes showed with Avant Gallery in the Art Miami art fair in 2019.

I suggest a new dignity and sense of tradition for this contemporary reality. My figures are both heroic and ironic — strong monumental players in a brave new world. These artworks uphold the illusion of an eternal perfection which can be strived for and achieved. These sculptures are allegories for our times.

Lina Condes
Family Chain
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