Artist:
Ugo Rondinone
Title:
Summer Moon
Year:
2023
Adress:
Sculpture in the City (temporary)
Website:
www.ep-viewingroom.exhibit-e.art:
The casting of a 2000-year-old olive tree is a memoriam of condensed time. By casting an olive tree, the passing of time can be profoundly experienced frozen in its ephemeral state. Time becomes a living abstraction, showing how the figure of an ancient olive tree is formed by the accumulation of time and the forces of air, water, wind, and fire.
www.stirworld.com:
"Made of painted white aluminium, Summer Moon by Ugo Rondinone is a cast of an ancient olive tree, sited next to the historic St Helen s church. I love the synergy between the old church that has witnessed so much over the centuries and the wise old olive tree which also symbolises the passing of time.
www.sculptureinthecity.org.uk:
Through a cast olive tree you can not only experience the lapse of real time, that is lived time, frozen in its given form, but through this transformation also a different calibrated temporality. Time can be experienced as a lived abstraction, where the shape is formed by the accumulation of time and wind force.
www.sculptureinthecity.org.uk:
Ugo Rondinone has long embraced a fluid range of forms and media. As a whole, his work constitutes a complex network of responses to social and physical structures. By allowing himself such formal and thematic freedom, Rondinone creates the conditions for an expansive emotional range. His work has become recognised for its ability to channel both psychological expressiveness and profound insight in the human condition and the relationship between human being and nature.
A. Tarsia, ed.:
"Although Rondinone''s works can exists outside the gallery, he is masterful within its walls. There he makes his mental landscapes palpable, in sequences of rooms that represent the indoor and the outdoor as metaphors for our inner and outer worlds. Rondinone''s landcape paintings always prominently feature trees, which also play a central part in his indoor landscapes. Outdoor rooms may contain polyester casts of old olive trees, sometimes bound in black or brown tape, on other occasions cast in white...Rondinones symbols owe something to the pagan, to an animism inherent in the consciousness of nature, in trees, mountains, the sky, and the sea. His ancient olive trees whisper in oracular voices guiding us or leading us astray."
(A. Tarsia, ed., Ugo Rondinone: zero built a nest in my navel, London, 2006, p. 275, www.phillips.com)
www.sculptureinthecity.org.uk:
Ugo Rondinone s summer moon, 2011, belongs to a long-running series of sculptures of trees. From the mid-2000s, Rondinone embarked on a series of life-size sculptures of ancient olive trees in white-painted aluminium.
Ugo Rondinone (b. 1964, Brunnen, Switzerland) lives and works in New York and studied at Hochschule f r Angewandte Kunst, Vienna (1986-90).
www.sadiecoles.com:
Solo Exhibitions
2023
bright light shining, Gladstone Gallery, New York NY, USA
Gaerija Kula, Split, Croatia
Fosum Foundation, Shanghai, China
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. WA, USA
Martos Gallery, New York NY, USA
Gladstone Gallery, New York NY, USA
Journal Gallery, New York NY, USA
the sun and the moon, Storm King, New York NY, USA
sunrise. east, St del Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
www.wikipedia.org:
Ugo Rondinone (born November 30, 1964) is a Swiss-born artist widely recognized for his mastery of several different media[citation needed] most prominently sculpture, drawing and painting, but also photography, architecture, video and sound installation in the largely figurative works he has made for exhibitions in galleries, museums and outdoor public spaces around the world. He has never limited himself to a particular material, no more than he has to a single discipline. Lead, wood, wax, bronze, stained glass, ink, paint, soil and stone are all tools in a creative arsenal that the artist has employed to extend the Romantic tradition in works that are as sensitive to the passage of time as to the nuances of body language and the spoken word.
Rondinone is widely known for his temporary, large-scale land art sculpture, Seven Magic Mountains (2016 2021), with its seven fluorescently-painted totems of large, car-size stones stacked 32 feet (9.8 m) high.
The casting of a 2000-year-old olive tree is a memoriam of condensed time. By casting an olive tree, the passing of time can be profoundly experienced frozen in its ephemeral state. Time becomes a living abstraction, showing how the figure of an ancient olive tree is formed by the accumulation of time and the forces of air, water, wind, and fire.
www.stirworld.com:
"Made of painted white aluminium, Summer Moon by Ugo Rondinone is a cast of an ancient olive tree, sited next to the historic St Helen s church. I love the synergy between the old church that has witnessed so much over the centuries and the wise old olive tree which also symbolises the passing of time.
www.sculptureinthecity.org.uk:
Through a cast olive tree you can not only experience the lapse of real time, that is lived time, frozen in its given form, but through this transformation also a different calibrated temporality. Time can be experienced as a lived abstraction, where the shape is formed by the accumulation of time and wind force.
www.sculptureinthecity.org.uk:
Ugo Rondinone has long embraced a fluid range of forms and media. As a whole, his work constitutes a complex network of responses to social and physical structures. By allowing himself such formal and thematic freedom, Rondinone creates the conditions for an expansive emotional range. His work has become recognised for its ability to channel both psychological expressiveness and profound insight in the human condition and the relationship between human being and nature.
A. Tarsia, ed.:
"Although Rondinone''s works can exists outside the gallery, he is masterful within its walls. There he makes his mental landscapes palpable, in sequences of rooms that represent the indoor and the outdoor as metaphors for our inner and outer worlds. Rondinone''s landcape paintings always prominently feature trees, which also play a central part in his indoor landscapes. Outdoor rooms may contain polyester casts of old olive trees, sometimes bound in black or brown tape, on other occasions cast in white...Rondinones symbols owe something to the pagan, to an animism inherent in the consciousness of nature, in trees, mountains, the sky, and the sea. His ancient olive trees whisper in oracular voices guiding us or leading us astray."
(A. Tarsia, ed., Ugo Rondinone: zero built a nest in my navel, London, 2006, p. 275, www.phillips.com)
www.sculptureinthecity.org.uk:
Ugo Rondinone s summer moon, 2011, belongs to a long-running series of sculptures of trees. From the mid-2000s, Rondinone embarked on a series of life-size sculptures of ancient olive trees in white-painted aluminium.
Ugo Rondinone (b. 1964, Brunnen, Switzerland) lives and works in New York and studied at Hochschule f r Angewandte Kunst, Vienna (1986-90).
www.sadiecoles.com:
Solo Exhibitions
2023
bright light shining, Gladstone Gallery, New York NY, USA
Gaerija Kula, Split, Croatia
Fosum Foundation, Shanghai, China
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. WA, USA
Martos Gallery, New York NY, USA
Gladstone Gallery, New York NY, USA
Journal Gallery, New York NY, USA
the sun and the moon, Storm King, New York NY, USA
sunrise. east, St del Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
www.wikipedia.org:
Ugo Rondinone (born November 30, 1964) is a Swiss-born artist widely recognized for his mastery of several different media[citation needed] most prominently sculpture, drawing and painting, but also photography, architecture, video and sound installation in the largely figurative works he has made for exhibitions in galleries, museums and outdoor public spaces around the world. He has never limited himself to a particular material, no more than he has to a single discipline. Lead, wood, wax, bronze, stained glass, ink, paint, soil and stone are all tools in a creative arsenal that the artist has employed to extend the Romantic tradition in works that are as sensitive to the passage of time as to the nuances of body language and the spoken word.
Rondinone is widely known for his temporary, large-scale land art sculpture, Seven Magic Mountains (2016 2021), with its seven fluorescently-painted totems of large, car-size stones stacked 32 feet (9.8 m) high.