becoming soil Ugo Rondinone
April 15—September 18, 2016
Carré d'Art, Musée d'art contemporain, Nîmes

becoming soil Ugo Rondinone

Exhibition view: becoming soil, Carré d'Art, Musée d'art contemporain, Nîmes, 2016 Photo © Stefan Altenburger

Press Release

For this exhibition, Ugo Rondinone turns the Carré d’Art space into a vast landscape associating the large paintings of starry nights and the monumental landscapes done in Indian ink or large blue skies. You find his sculptures of birds (primitive), horses (primal) and fish (primordial), modeled and then cast in bronze. All coming in different shapes and sizes, they are associated in poetical correspondences with natural phenomena or elements such as snow, dust or sunshine....
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