charcoal, oil, paper, adhesive, print, acrylic, and archival plastic sheet.Conditions
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.
This contemporary art collage presents a visually striking and provocative assemblage of diverse elements. The color palette features a mix of muted tones and bold, vibrant hues, creating a sense of visual tension. The composition juxtaposes various images and text, including a portrait, architectural structures, and abstract forms, inviting the viewer to explore the underlying themes and concepts. The artwork appears to comment on societal and cultural issues, using a combination of found imagery, graffiti-style text, and emotive symbolism. While the subject matter may be controversial, the artist's intention seems to be to challenge conventional norms and elicit a thoughtful response from the audience. ...
Conditions began as Bonny Poon in 2017, Paris. Located on the 26th floor of a brutalist residential tower in the 13e, the gallery was co-founded by Nathaniel Monjaret (Marbriers 4, Geneva) and artist Bonny Poon.
Since 2023, the gallery is known as Conditions and is based out of Toronto’s Chinatown, while operating internationally. From the outset, Bonny Poon has striven to highlight the conditions that make art—from its production to sale—possible.
Beyond the art on display, we foreground the history of our artists' attitudes, positions, and networks. We have presented the Parisian and Canadian debut of many intergenerational artists and cultural figures, emerging and established.
As a gallery and an auto-fiction, we support transgressive artists and critical experiments. We mine the backstage, backroom working relations that unfold between our artists, clients, critics, and dealers—a parade of economic reality, a lasting dream of community. ...
