Ugo Rondinone takes up the question of identity through his multimedia artworks, which ecompass high art and commerce, fashionably hip affirmation and melancholy withdrawal from the world, seduction and rejection, the routine of daily life and highly exaggerated contrasting worlds – a balancing act of ambiguities. This volume shows Rondinone’s work from the 1990s: diaries in the style of underground comics, the banality of everyday life on unedited never-ending videotapes, hypnotizing circle pictures, clowns, hermetic spatial installations and monumental brush and ink landscape pictures.
Catalogue:
Ugo Rondinone: „Guided by voices”. Ed.: Beatrix Ruf in cooperation with Jan Winkelmann. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 1999, Price: 24.00€
Edition:
Rondinone, Ugo: Moonlightning, 2000
C-Print
Size: 30 x 24 cm
Limited edition: 12
Sold.
Texts:
Beatrix Ruf – The Web that has the Weaver (dt. und engl.)
Jan Avgikos – Das Land im Glück/ The Land of Happy
Jan Winkelmann – Der glückliche Clown – Aspekte in Ugo Rondinones Werk zwischen Slow Motion und Authenzität/The Happy Clown – Aspects of Ugo Rondinone’s Work between Slow Motion and Authenticity
