Ugo Rondinone: Nuns + Monks (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783969120200)

Contemplation and Communion with the World. Ugo Rondinone (b. Brunnen, Switzerland, 1964; lives and works in New York) is a conceptual and installation artist whose oeuvre spans abstract painting, photography, and sculpture. Nature is where he has long found inspiration, regeneration, and comfort: "In nature, you enter a space where the sacred and the profane, the mystical and the secular vibrate against one another." Rondinone's works oscillate between the extremes of interiority and engagement with the wider world; stone is often present in his art as a recurrent material and symbol. The sculptures in the series nuns + monks originated as limestone models; the artist made three-dimensional scans and then cast the works in bronze. As a reflection of the inner self in the outside world, the friable mineral contrasts with the solidity of the bronze; the natural genesis of the millennia-old stones with the presence of the polychrome casts in the here and now. nuns + monks attest to a visibility while also giving the impression of flinching from the gazes to which they expose themselves.

Author: Erik Verhagen
ISBN-10: 3969120209
ISBN-13: 9783969120200
Publisher: DCV
Language: English
Published: 01/10/2022
Pages: 52
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 12.30h x 9.50w x 0.30d