Author Description

Ugo Rondinone (b. Brunnen, Switzerland, 1964; lives and works in New York) is one of the most accomplished artists of his generation. For three decades, the conceptual and installation artist has built an oeuvre grappling with themes of time and impermanence, day and night, reality and fiction, nature and culture. Spanning diverse media-- painting, sculpture, film, and installation art-- his work is rooted in the transformation of outward reality into a subjective and emotionally charged world within, harnessing a multifaceted system of inspirations and references from German Romanticism to American Land Art and international pop culture. Balancing the mundane with the spiritual, the artist conjures suggestive atmospheres that capture the contemporary mood. This book gathers four exhibitions of Ugo Rondinone's work in 2021: a wall. a door. a tree. a lightbulb. winter at the Sø rlandets Kunstmuseum (SKMU), Kristiansand, Norway; a sky. a sea. distant mountains. horses. spring at Sadie Coles hq, London; a rainbow. a nude. bright light. summer at Kamel Mennour, Paris; and a low sun. golden mountains. fall at Galerie Krobath, Vienna.