Introduction

Under the theme of ‘Diaspora and All Minority of the World’, the exhibition Yet, With Love at the PODO Museum focuses on beings who are pioneering new lives beyond their geographical and emotional hometowns for various reasons.

Included in the exhibition are Ugo Rondinone's long last happy, 2020 and vocabulary of solitude, 2016.

Seen above the entrance to the museum, Rondinone's long last happy consists of an impressive and colorful site-specific neon sculpture—that can either be installed free-standing on the roof of a building, or mounted on a facade—whose rainbow-striped letters spell out a poetic statement addressed to passers-by.

Inside the museum vocabulary of solitude, 2016, a total space installation comprises window colour treatments (screen film) clown sculptures arrayed in various positions on floor, floor cover in vinyl. The window treatments include front window side and back.

Rondinone has worked with the theme of rainbows for decades. Since 1997 and his first neon work, cry me a river, the artist has created 14 neon rainbow sculptures. As a phenomenon, the rainbow is familiar yet intangible; rarely seen, it is associated with luck and serendipity. The rainbow can also be seen as a metaphor of Rondinone’s work and mentality: poetic and ungraspable in its stylistic diversity.