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Description: ’’Condo Painting’’ is not, as the title might seem to suggest, an instructional film for apartment owners, but rather an 86-minute documentary on the life, work and thought of George Condo, a garrulous painter with a mischievous sense of humor and an eccentric, quasi-mystical view of art and the world it inhabits. To call the film a documentary may be a bit misleading. Directed by the Chicago filmmaker John McNaughton (’Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Wild Things) in close collaboration with its subject, ’’Condo Painting’’ tries not only to record the artist’s aesthetic theories but also to apply them. What results is a free-form excursion, studded with abstract music-video effects (and accompanied by a soundtrack featuring music by DJ Spooky, Tom Waits and the Residents), through the sensibility of a man who is sometimes enlightening, sometimes amusing and sometimes annoying.
