Ugo Rondinone: Life Time

Day and night, reality and fiction, nature and culture

Ugo Rondinone (*1964) gives everyday things or phenomena a poetic dimension. A tree, a clock, the sun or a rainbow - by means of repetition, isolation or reduction, he places them in a new context in his typical minimalist manner and creates atmospheric moods. The Schirn is dedicating a major survey exhibition to Rondinone, in which key paintings, sculptures and video works by the renowned Swiss artist will be presented. He has also designed a new installation especially for the Schirn, which extends over the entire length of the gallery and into the rotunda. The exhibition and the book "Life Time" combine key themes that have characterised the work of the conceptual and installation artist for 30 years: Time and transience, day and night, reality and fiction, nature and culture. In his works, Rondinone repeatedly draws on the iconography of Romanticism, quoting literature and pop culture. The starting point of his multimedia oeuvre is the inversion of the outside world into a subjective, emotional inner world. He creates experiential spaces in which the audience becomes part of the installations and their immersive structure.

Exhibition:
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 24/6 - 18/9/2022