For eight hours a day, Wan Shoujian and Zhao Ping dress up as clowns and take up positions on the floor of Shanghai’s Rockbund Art Museum. They’re there every day except Mondays, when the museum is ...
When the artist Ugo Rondinone was diagnosed with an aggressive form of bladder cancer in May 2017 he felt alone and terribly uninformed. Rondinone had never heard of bladder cancer nor known anyone ...
Ugo Rondinone, cry me a river (1997–2024). Photo: Stefan Alternburger. Courtesy of the artist and Kunstmuseum Luzern. Director of Kunstmuseum Luzern Fanni Fetzer said, “I was really surprised that Ugo ...
Ugo Rondinone’s Human Nature at Rockefeller Plaza (all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic) Continuing the long human tradition of rock stacking, Ugo Rondinone’s contemporary art cairns are ...
Much like the proverbial rolling stone, a coastal bluff with sandy soil is a tricky spot to gather moss. But Ugo Rondinone remained undaunted. Starting in the COVID lockdown of 2020, the Swiss-born ...
Artist Ugo Rondinone has revealed his battle with bladder cancer to raise awareness and fight the disease. Rondinone — who’s behind Las Vegas sculpture “Seven Magic Mountains,” which is visited by 300 ...
Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone's colorful land art is bringing happiness to the desert. As one Instagrammer says, "We spend so much money trying to be happy, and who knew a bunch of colorful rocks could ...
They weren’t looking for a new house. In the summer of 2014, artist Ugo Rondinone and his partner, poet John Giorno, were visiting Rondinone’s dealer Barbara Gladstone on the North Fork of Long Island ...
“Visual art is a spiritual and transcendental discipline. There is a distinction between my affirmation of a powerless and delusional structure of language and language rituals and my belief in the ...
Spotlight: Ugo Rondinone’s Witty Takeover of a Swiss Museum Sees Him Curate Himself Into Art History
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Ugo Rondinone is a Swiss contemporary artist working in mixed-media installations that include sculpture, painting, video, sound, and photography. His wide-ranging practice utilizes metaphoric and ...
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