Ugo Rondinone
The Morning of the Poem, 2014
Installation; aluminium foil on existing structure
dimensions variable
A drab and overlooked utilitarian building is transformed into a splash of metallic color, to become as the artist describes it, ‘a hymn to perception’. Re-imagined in this way it stands as a momentary marker between shifting realities. The electricity that it continues to convey is now expressed as aesthetic charge; a bolt of visual sensation across a white land.
Ugo Rondinone (born 1964 Brunnen, Switzerland) is a New-York based mixed-media artist whose works explore themes of fantasy and desire. Many of his pieces coax the viewer into a meditative state like the blurred, brightly colored, concentric rings of his target-shaped paintings; or his strictly black and white landscapes of gnarled trees that seem to bristle with energy.