Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Nickas, Bob |
| Publisher: | Rizzoli Electa |
| Date: | 4/12/2022 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
Ugo Rondinone’s Sun paintings are reproduced at unprecedented scale in a display-worthy elephant folio, published in a limited edition of 345 copies.
NewYork–based,Swiss-bornconceptualartistUgo Rondinone’sSunpaintingsareamonghismostcelebratedseries.Begunin1992andspanningthree decades,theSunworksreflectRondinone’sinter-estsinnineteenth-centuryGermanRomanticismand Tibetanmysticismasvehiclestoexplorenatural theSunseriesbydirectinghisgazeinward(acoun-terpointtohiscontemporaneouspleinairworks), translatinghisemotionalstatetocircularbandsof thesediaristicstudiesandtheviewer,Rondinone then altered the media and scale: expanding the Suns tomorethansevenfeetindiameterandexchanging -tainingaconsistentformandnamingstrategy—the German date of the work—Rondinone cycled through morethan370colorcombinations,rangingfrom strong contrasts to barely perceptible shifts.
Sometimesreferredtoasmandalaworks,theSun paintings fill the viewer’s field of vision with pulsing color. At 19 by 22 inches, this elephant folio creates an withreproductionsofall219largeworksand154 smallercanvasesandprints, UgoRondinone:The Sun is the most comprehensive source on the series to date.
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