Ugo Rondinone: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall

Ugo Rondinone (b. Brunnen, Switzerland, 1964; lives and works in New York) is one of the most accomplished artists of his generation. For three decades, the conceptual and installation artist has built an oeuvre grappling with themes of time and impermanence, day and night, reality and fiction, nature and culture. Spanning diverse media— painting, sculpture, film, and installation art— his work is rooted in the transformation of outward reality into a subjective and emotionally charged world within, harnessing a multifaceted system of inspirations and references from German Romanticism to American Land Art and international pop culture. Balancing the mundane with the spiritual, the artist conjures suggestive atmospheres that capture the contemporary mood. This book gathers four exhibitions of Ugo Rondinone’ s work in 2021: a wall . a door . a tree . a lightbulb . winter at the Sø rlandets Kunstmuseum (SKMU), Kristiansand, Norway; a sky . a sea . distant mountains . horses . spring at Sadie Coles hq, London; a rainbow . a nude . bright light . summer at Kamel Mennour, Paris; and a low sun . golden mountains . fall at Galerie Krobath, Vienna.

Ugo Rondinone is a Swiss-born artist widely recognized for his mastery of several different media— most prominently sculpture, drawing and painting, but also photography, architecture, video and sound. As an art director, writer and strategist, Marlo works with a carefully curated selection of international designers, institutes and publications. Since 2019, Nina Schedlmayer has been editor-in-chief of the Lower Austrian cultural magazine morgen. Sadie Coles HQ is a London-based contemporary art gallery representing around fifty international artists. Erik Verhagen, an independent curator and an art critic, is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History at Université de Valenciennes. kamel mennour is a contemporary art gallery with exhibition locations in Paris representing over forty artists. James Francis Cahill was an art historian, curator, collector, and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Art gallery in Vienna, Austria.