Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone’s exhibition Nuns + Monks at Galerie Presenhuber’s space at Maag Areal in Zürich (Switzerland) presents seven painted bronze sculptures and five wall pieces in cast aluminium.
“Stones have been a presence and recurring material and symbol in my art. They are the subjects of the stone figures that I began with the monumental Human Nature installation at the Rockefeller Plaza in 2013, followed by Seven Magic Mountains in the Nevada Desert in 2016. Both groups are the study and enjoyment of naturally formed stones as objects of beauty and contemplation, and in turn generate personal, meditative states of looking in which the boundaries between the outside world and internally visualized spaces break down. In doing so, I make sculptures of what it means and feels like to see, whether this is understood to be a physical or metaphysical phenomenon.
nuns + monks will continue to address the dual reflection between the inner self and the natural world. Just as the external world one sees is inseparable from the internal structures of oneself, nuns + monks allows such layers of signification to come in and out of focus, prompting the viewer to revel in the pure sensory experience of color, form, and mass while simultaneously engender in an altogether contemporary version of the sublime.”
(Ugo Rondinone)
Ugo Rondinone: Nuns + Monks / Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Maag Areal, Zürich. September 11, 2020.
0:00 Intro
0:14 man and woman contemplating the moon 1824, 2015
1:38 black red nun, 2020
2:39 gray brown nun, 2019
2:53 fog in the elbe valley 1821, 2016
3:04 white blue monk, 2020
4:05 mountain landscape with rainbow 1810, 2016
4:26 orange yellow monk, 2020
5:41 green black monk, 2020
5:52 blue violet nun, 2020
6:04 wanderer above the sea of fog 1818, 2015
6:15 yellow white monk, 2020
6:58 outro
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