Ugo Rondinone Nuns + Monks /anglais - Couverture rigide

Verhagen, Erik

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3969120209 ISBN 13 : 9783969120200

Editeur : Dr. Cantz'sche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2021

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Erik Verhagen is professor of Contemporary Art History at the Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France in Valenciennes (France), independent curator, and art critic.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dr. Cantz'sche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3969120209
• ISBN 13: 9783969120200
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 52
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible