Ugo Rondinone - Nuns + Monks

Ugo Rondinone - Nuns + Monks Synopsis

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