Exhibition - Ugo Rondinone
Yet, with love
PODO MUSEUM
Exhibition: July 2022 – 3 July, 2023
Ugo Rondinone,
installation view: Yet, With Love, 2022.
Courtesy to PODO museum and the artist.
Opening: July 2022
With the underlying theme of 'Diaspora and All Minorities in the World', the exhibition, Yet, With Love, at the PODO Museum showcases various beings seeking new lives beyond their geographical and emotional homes, for various reasons.
This exhibition includes Ugo Rondinone's Long Last Happy (2020) and Vocabulary of Solitude (2016).
Long Last Happy consists of a striking and colorful site-specific neon sculpture, visible above the museum's entrance, with rainbow-striped letters and free-standing on the roof of the building. It can be installed or attached to the facade to formulate a poetic statement aimed at passers-by.
Inside the museum, Vocabulary of Solitude is showcased as a full-space installation that includes window painting (screen film), clown sculptures placed in various positions on the floor, and a vinyl floor. Rondinone has been dealing with rainbow themes for decades. Since his first neon work, Cry me a river, in 1997, the artist has created 14 of his unique neon rainbow sculptures. As a phenomenon, rainbows are familiar, but not visible. Rarely seen, but associated with luck and chance. The rainbow can also be seen as a metaphor for Rondinone's work and mentality. Poetic and enigmatic in its stylistic diversity.
Considered to be one of the most important voices of his generation, Rondinone developed an organic vocabulary of forms that blended various sculptural and pictorial traditions, while also discussing nature and the human condition. He is an artist who composes fiery meditations. The breadth and generosity of his vision of humanity has resulted in a wide range of his two-dimensional and his three-dimensional objects, installations, videos, and performances. He draws on both ancient and contemporary cultural sources alike, his hybrid forms exuding pathos and humor, going straight to the heart of the most pressing contemporary issues where modernist achievements and archaic expressions intersect. increase.
About:
Ugo Rondinone (b. 1964 in Brunnen, Switzerland) is an international recognized artist living and working in NewYork. He studied at the Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, in 1986. His recent solo exhibitions include: the water is a poem unwritten by the air no. the earth is a poem unwritten by the fire, Petit Palais, Paris (2022-2023); burn shine fly, Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice (2022); vocabulary of solitude, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City (2022), LIFE TIME, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main (2022); nude in the landscape, Belvedere 21, Vienna (2021-22); your age and my age and the age of the rainbow, Belvedere Palace Garden, Vienna (2021); Ugo Rondinone. a wall. a door. a tree. a lightbulb. winter, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand (2021); the sun + the moon, Lustwarande, Tilburg (2021); among others. His art was included in group exhibitions including: Paradise Kortrijk 2021. Triennial for contemporary art, Kortrijk (2021); Among the Trees, Hayward Gallery, London (2020); Making Art Public: 50 Years of Kaldor Public Art Projects, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2019-20); 40,000 - A Museum of Curiosity, Fellbach Triennial, Fellbach (2019); among others. Rondinone's work is held in the following collections: The Bass Museum of Art, Miami; Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich; Musée d'Art Contemporain, Strasbourg; Musée national d'art moderne - Centre Pompidou, Paris; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; New Museum, New York; The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, among others.
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