Ugo Rondinone is a renowned mixed-media artist who lives and works in New York. Over the past twenty years, he has been exploring the figure of the contemporary artist and his relation to the world, but also the relation between the viewer and the artwork, whether the work induces a contemplation, reverie, or meditation. His work has been shown in numerous exhibition centres throughout the world, such as Le Consortium, Dijon (1997), the Kunstverein, Stuttgart (2002), or the Pompidou Centre, Paris (2003). He represented Switzerland at the 52nd Venice Biennale and curated the exhibition The Third Mind at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in 2007. Recent solo shows include, your age my age and the age of the rainbow, The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2017); let’s start this day again, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (2017); every time the sun comes up, Place Vendome, Paris (2016); girono d’oro + notti d’argento, Mercati die Traiano, Rome (2016); becoming soil, Carre d’Art, Nîmes (2016); vocabulary of solitude, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2016); Ugo Rondinone: I ♥︎ John Giorno, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2015), among others. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and the Dallas Museum of Art, among others.
Ugo Rondinone
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Ugo Rondinone, The twenty-first hour of the poem, 2008
Cast wax, pigments
140 x 82 x 82 cm
55 1/8 x 32 1/4 x 32 1/4 inches -
Ugo Rondinone, the hollow, 2014
oil on wood, Plexiglas
198 x 112 x 5 cm -
Ugo Rondinone, still.life (pine green candle), 2013
Cast bronze, lead, paint
7 x 5,1 x 4,3 cm -
Ugo Rondinone, still.life (moss green candle), 2013
Cast bronze, lead, paint
7,3 x 7 x 4,8 cm -
Ugo Rondinone, still.life (bright pink candle), 2013
Cast bronze, lead, paint
11,3 x 8,3 x 7,7 cm -
Ugo Rondinone, still.life (warm yellow candle), 2013
Cast bronze, lead, paint
6 x 14,3 x 10 cm -
Ugo Rondinone, still.life (carmine red candle), 2013
Cast bronze, lead, paint
10,2 x 6,4 x 5,1 cm -
Ugo Rondinone, still.life (persian blue candle), 2013
Cast bronze, lead, paint
9,4 x 7,1 x 7 cm -
Ugo Rondinone, still.life (light pink candle), 2013
Cast bronze, lead, paint
11,5 x 5,7 x 4,3 cm -
Ugo Rondinone, still.life (ghost white candle), 2013
Cast bronze, lead, paint
7,8 x 11,4 x 9,5 cm -
Ugo Rondinone, still.life (lavender candle), 2013
Cast bronze, lead, paint
9,5 x 8,6 x 7,5 cm -
Ugo Rondinone, DREIUNDZWANZIGSTERFEBRUARZWEITAUSENDUNDDREIZEHN, 2013
Acrylic paint on wall, plexiglass plaque with caption
340 x 340 cm -
Ugo Rondinone, SIEBENUNDZWANZIGSTERFEBRUARZWEITAUSENDUNDDREIZEHN, 2013
Acrylic paint on wall, plexiglass plaque with caption
340 x 340 cm -
Ugo Rondinone, VIERTERMÄRZZWEITAUSENDUNDDREIZEHN, 2013
Acrylic paint on wall, plexiglass plaque with caption
340 x 340 cm -
Ugo Rondinone, FÜNFZEHNTERFEBRUARZWEITAUSENDUNDDREIZEHN, 2013
Acrylic paint on wall, plexiglass plaque with caption
340 x 340 cm -
Ugo Rondinone, FÜNFUNDZWANZIGSTERFEBRUARZWEITAUSENDUNDDREIZEHN, 2013
Acrylic paint on wall, plexiglass plaque with caption
340 x 340 cm -
Ugo Rondinone, ZWANZIGSTERFEBRUARZWEITAUSENDUNDDREIZEHN, 2013
Acrylic paint on wall, plexiglass plaque with caption
340 x 340 cm -
Ugo Rondinone, ELFTERFEBRUARZWEITAUSENDUNDDREIZEHN, 2013
Acrylic paint on wall, plexiglass plaque with caption
340 x 340 cm -
Ugo Rondinone, NEUNTERFEBRUARZWEITAUSENDUNDDREIZEHN, 2013
Acrylic paint on wall, plexiglass plaque with caption
340 x 340 cm -
Ugo Rondinone, ERSTERFEBRUARZWEITAUSENDUNDDREIZEHN, 2013
Acrylic paint on wall, plexiglass plaque with caption
340 x 340 cm -
Ugo Rondinone, still.life (vanilla white candle), 2013
Cast bronze, lead, paint
7,8 x 10 x 8,1 cm -
Ugo Rondinone, still.life (beige candle), 2013
Cast bronze, lead, paint
11,4 x 20,3 x 12,8 cm -
Ugo Rondinone, still.life (ceil blue candle), 2013
Cast bronze, lead, paint
5,6 x 9 x 5,7 cm -
Ugo Rondinone, still.life (carrot orange candle), 2013
Cast bronze, lead, paint
12,5 x 18,5 x 13,3 cm -
Ugo Rondinone, still.life (straw yellow candle), 2013
Cast bronze, lead, paint
14 x 7,9 x 5,6 cm -
Ugo Rondinone, still.life (turquoise blue candle), 2013
Cast bronze, lead, paint
10,5 x 10,4 x 7,5 cm -
Ugo Rondinone, still.life (pale pink candle), 2013
Cast bronze, lead, paint
12,6 x 14,2 x 12,4 cm -
Ugo Rondinone, still.life (wisteria purple candle), 2013
Cast bronze, lead, paint
6,5 x 20,7 x 13,7 cm -
Ugo Rondinone, still.life (mint green candle), 2013
Cast bronze, lead, paint
14,3 x 7,7 x 7,9 cm -
Ugo Rondinone, we run through a desert on burning feet, all of us are glowing our FACES look twisted, 2011
Polystyrene cellular plastics, steel, grout, grit, light-weight concrete
353 x 327 x 309 cm -
Ugo Rondinone, Exhibition view of 'The Night of Lead', 2009, MUSAC, Castilla, Spain
Exhibition view -
Ugo Rondinone, Exhibition view of 'The Night of Lead', 2009, MUSAC, Castilla, Spain
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Ugo Rondinone, ZWEITERJUNIZWEITAUSENDUNDNEUN, 2009
Acrylic paint on canvas, plexiglass plaque with caption
260 x 200 cm -
Ugo Rondinone, Exhibition view of 'The Night of Lead', 2009, MUSAC, Castilla, Spain
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Ugo Rondinone, Turn back time.lets start this day again, 2009
Cast aluminium, white enamel
557 x 450 cm -
Ugo Rondinone, Hell, Yes!, 2007 - 2010, Outdoor installation for the Façade Sculpture Program, New Museum, New York
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Ugo Rondinone, Installation view of 'Sunrise.east', 2009, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris
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Ugo Rondinone, SUNRISE. east. september, 2005
Cast bronze, silver car paint, concrete plinth
200 x 130 x 150 cm -
Ugo Rondinone, SUNRISE. east. january, 2005
Cast bronze, silver car paint, concrete plinth
190 x 120 x 110 cm -
Ugo Rondinone, ZWEIUNDZWANZIGSTERAPRILZWEITAUSENDUNDZWOELF, 2012
Acrylic on canvas, plexiglass plaque with caption
270 x 270 cm -
Ugo Rondinone, still.life. (snow white candle), 2013
Cast bronze, lead, paint
12,7 x 6,2 x 5,1 cm -
Ugo Rondinone, ACHTUNDZWANZIGSTERMAERZZWEITAUSENDUNDELF, 2011
Ink on paper, plexiglas plaque with caption
272 x 405 x 3 cm (framed) -
Ugo Rondinone, World Wide Web, 2011
Wood, hardware, enamel
282,7 x 237 x 15 cm -
Ugo Rondinone, window # 1, 2012
Brushed Aluminium
92 x 72 x 5,5 cm -
Ugo Rondinone, Exhibition view of 'Clockwork for oracles', Art Wall Project, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
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Ugo Rondinone, Exhibition view of 'New Horizon', at Almine Rech Gallery Brussels, 18.11.11 — 14.01.12
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Ugo Rondinone, ERSTERJUNIZWEITAUSENDUNDELF, 2011
Acrylic on glass reinforced plastic, plexiglass plaque with caption
200 x 500 x 4,8 cm -
Ugo Rondinone, ACHTUNDZWANZIGSTERJULIZWEITAUSENDUNDELF, 2011
Acrylic on glass reinforced plastic, plexiglass plaque with caption
200 x 500 x 4 cm -
Ugo Rondinone, FUENFZEHNTERJUNIZWEITAUSENDUNDELF, 2011
Acrylic on glass reinforced plastic, plexiglass plaque with caption
200 x 500 x 4 cm
Exhibitions
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Art Basel 2015
— • Basel -
Platform, Curated by Nicolas Trembley
— • Brussels -
Art Basel 2013
— • Basel -
pure moonlight
— • Paris -
Telephone Paintings, Curated by Nicolas Trembley
— • Art 43 Basel, Switzerland -
New Horizon
— • Brussels -
La vie silencieuse
— • Paris -
Magritte et la lumière, John Baldessari, Urs Fischer, Sylvie Fleury, Mark Handforth, Gregor Hildebrandt, Mike Kelley, Jeff Koons, Joseph Kosuth, Kris Martin, René Magritte, Anselm Reyle, Ugo Rondinone, Ed Rusha, Gavin Turk
— • Brussels -
On Butterfly Wings
— • Paris -
Sculptures, Carl André, Ugo Rondinone, Mark Handforth, Janko-Matic, John McCracken, Vincent Szarek, Gavin Turk, Uri Tzaig, Bruno Rousseaud
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Lessness
— • Paris -
If there were anywhere but desert
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The evening passes like another
— • Paris
Museum Exhibitions
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Ugo Rondinone - breathe walk die
— • Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai
Selected press
- Philippe Meier, 'Die kunst der Inszenierung', Neue Bürcher Beitun, June 2015 — 0.0
- Whitewall : 'Ugo Rondinone', Winter, 2014 — 0.0
- Sam Gaskin, 'An Ocula Conversation with Ugo Rondinone', OCULA, November,2014 — 0.0
- 'Non-Performance Art: Ugo Rondinone Fills the Rockbund Art Museum with Sleeping Clowns', ARTSY, October 22th, 2014 — 0.0
- Sam Gaskin, 'Ugo Rondinone: Breathe, Walk, Die', RANDIAN, September 23rd,2014 — 0.0
- Frances Arnold, 'Breath Walk Die', SMART SHANGAI, September 16th, 2014 — 0.0
- Antoine Espinasseau, FROG, n°13, November 2013 — 0.0
- Jean-Marie Gallais, FROG, n°13, November 2013 — 0.0
- Brienne Walsh, '"You Can Make Your Own Island": An Interview with Ugo Rondinone', BLOUINARTINFO, October, 28, 2013 — 0.0
- Brienne Walsh, 'Swiss Time, Ugo Rondinone Slows Down to Speed Up', BLOUINARTINFO.COM : MODERN PAINTERS, October, 2013. — 0.0
- Salina Ting, 'Interview: Ugo Rondinone', INITIART MAGAZINE, September, 2013 — 0.0
- Jérôme Sans, 'L'expérience de la lenteur', L'OFFICEL ART, Summer 2013 — 0.0
- David Colman, 'The Real Rock of Ages', NEW YORK TIMES, May 3rd, 2013 — 0.0
- ‘Ugo Rondinone (OO-go ron-di-NO-né) on HumanNature’, ARTSY, April 22nd, 2013 — 0.0
- James Barron, 'Nine Massive Humans Move Into Rockfeller Center', NEW YORK TIMES, April 17th 2013 — 0.0
- D. Creahan, 'Paris - Ugo Rondinone: "Pure Moonlight" at Almine Rech through April 12th, 2013', ARTOBSERVED, April 8th, 2013 — 0.0
- Charles Barachon, 'Ugo Rondinone', TECHNIKART, April, 2013. — 0.0
- Henri-François Debailleux, 'Almine Rech en ligne de mire', LE JOURNAL DES ARTS, April 4th, 2013. — 0.0
- François Salmeron, 'Ugo Rondinone', PARIS ART, March 27th, 2013. — 0.0
- Céline Piettre, 'Almine Rech s'installe rue de Turenne avec une exposition d'Ugo Rondinone', BLOUIN ART INFO, March 23rd, 2013 — 0.0
- Sam Steverlynck, 'Ugo Rondinone @ Almine Rech Gallery & Gladstone Gallery', KUNSTBEELDE.NL, November, 2012. — 0.0
- Anne-Lou Vicente, 'Ugo Rondinone - Where do we go from here?', VOLUME, October, 2012 — 0.0
- Bernard Marcelis, 'Ugo Rondinone', ARTPRESS, January, 2012. — 0.0
- Catherine Angelini,'Les nouveaux horizons de Rondinone', ARTENREWS, December, 2011. — 0.0
- 'Mandarinen und Gedichte', SCHAFFHAUSER NACHRICHTEN, May 27th, 2011. — 0.0
- Sarah Ihler-Meyer, 'Rondinone: How does i feel au 104', ZERODEUX.FR, 2011. — 0.0
- 'Melancholische Szenerien', NEUE ZURCHER ZEITUNG, June 12th, 2010. — 0.0
- 'Ausstellung Nachtlied', NZZ AM SONNTAG, June 6th, 2010. — 0.0
- 'Die Dunkelheit anknipsen', TAGES, May 14th, 2010 — 0.0
- 'Ugo Rondinone', BADISCHE ZEITUNG, May 10th, 2010. — 0.0
- 'Ugo Rondinone - die Nacht aus Blei', AZ AARAU, May 5th, 2010 — 0.0