SCHIRN MAG
Around the World with Rondinone
By Maja Lisewski
Magical mountains, rainbows and suns: Like few other artists, Ugo Rondinone somehow manages to bring everyday life to a halt with his simple, yet...
The SCHIRN is dedicating a large survey exhibition to Ugo Rondinone with key paintings, sculptures, and video works
UGO RONDINONE. LIFE TIME
24 JUNE – 18 SEPTEMBER 2022
Ugo Rondinone adds a poetic dimension to everyday objects and phenomena. In typically minimalistic arrangements, he puts a tree, a clock, the sun or a rainbow in new contexts by means of repetition, isolation, or reduction, creating atmospheric ambiences. The SCHIRN is dedicating a large survey exhibition to Rondinone that will showcase key paintings, sculptures, and video works by the renowned Swiss artist. Devised specifically for the SCHIRN, his new installation extends along the entire length of the gallery and into the Rotunda.
The exhibition LIFE TIME combines fundamental themes that have shaped the work of the conceptual and installation artist for the past thirty years: time and transience, day and night, reality and fiction, nature and culture. Rondinone has repeatedly referred to the iconography of Romanticism in his works and used quotes from literature and pop culture. The starting point of his multimedia oeuvre is the transformation of the outside world into a subjective, emotional inner world. He develops experiential spaces in which the viewer actually becomes part of the installations and their immersive structures
THE EXHIBITION CATALOG
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From black star images to "pure sunshine" - the large-format illustrations in the extensive picture section provide a very direct insight into the artist's versatile, multimedia œuvre and depict his work of the past decades.
Ugo Rondinone. LIFE TIME edited by Matthias Ulrich, with contributions by Dominic Eichler, Brigitte Franzen, and Matthias Ulrich, as well as a foreword by Philipp Demandt, director of the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.
