UGO RONDINONE

white green silver blue black mountain

Painted stone, stainless steel pedestal

209 x 74 x 45 cm

Executed in 2017

 

UGO RONDINONE

black blue yellow green mountain

Painted stone, stainless steel pedestal

172 x 53 x 42 cm Executed in 2015

 

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Ugo Rondinone (born 1964) is a Swiss-born mixed-media artist living and working in

New York. His practice spans sculpture, painting, installation, and film, and draws inspiration from nature, spirituality and the everyday to create playful works that blur the boundary between fiction and reality.

 

ABOUT THE ARTWORKS Ugo Rondinone’s work frequently takes inspiration from nature

and ritual, which Rondinone re-imagines according to his brightly coloured and whimsical vision. His Mountain sculptures consist of heavy, rough rocks stacked vertically on concrete plinths. Inspired by naturally- occurring Hoodoos (spires or pyramids of stone) and balancing rock formations, Rondinone, however, subverts their geological form by coating individual rocks with his signature virulent, unnaturalistic colours. The works seem to erupt from a cartoon landscape; a natural world turned Pop. The stacked stones appear poised between monumentality and collapse, delicate Day-Glo totems defying gravity in their teetering formations; simultaneously weight-less and earthbound. Like Yoshitomo Nara (also featured at The Scandinavian), Rondinone transforms elements of landscape into an otherworldly dreamscape, toying between reality and surreality, between the earthly and the imaginary.