Ugo Rondinone

Born in 1964 in Brunnen (Switzerland), he lives and works in New York.

Ugo Rondinone's work proposes a definition of the exhibition as a circular place where the viewer reconstructs his relationship to the world and to art in fragments. After having played with his own identity for a long time, as a clown figure or as a fashion magazine icon, Rondinone has recently done away with this intermediary character, neither himself nor the other, and is moving towards abstract forms, which hollow out around the suspended place of the viewer. The presence of sound, from looped female and male voices, triggers a feeling of disquiet, of strangeness, referring to the visitor's space of incommunicability but also to that of the dream. A dream which, like a reminiscence, displaces art into sensory and melancholic spheres.