Julie Belcove interviews George Condo in the FT resulting in this story about the young artist and the pop master:
In New York Condo took a series of temp jobs, one at a gallery. When Andy Warhol saw a press release he’d written there, he asked that its author come to document the minutiae of life at the Factory. Warhol’s minions soon discovered that Condo was an artist – he touched up a speck on a Diana Ross portrait with a dab of ink – and hired him to help print the “Myths” series. During his eight-month stint, Condo was in Warhol’s presence only once, when he carried the proofs for the artist’s approval. “He made some funny comment like, ‘How come I always have to sign them?’”
A few years later, Warhol bought several paintings from one of Condo’s first shows. “I didn’t care if I had critical acceptance,” Condo says. “I was more excited about being accepted by artists.” When Warhol asked mutual friend Keith Haring to introduce them, Condo consented but was inexplicably petrified that Warhol would recognise him from the Factory. Even after becoming friends, “I never told him, I was just so embarrassed.”
George Condo Interview (Financial Times)
