no how on Ugo Rondinone
June 28—September 22, 2002
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

no how on Ugo Rondinone

Front: if there were anywhere but desert. tuesday, 2002 Fiberglass, paint, clothing, glitter 167 cm × 51 cm × 118 cm Back: achtermaizweitausendundzwei, 2002 Acrylic airbrush on canvas, silkscreen on plexiglass plaque ø 220 cm Photo © Studio Rondinone

Press Release

The artist, Ugo Rondinone, born 1963 in Switzerland and currently living in New York, is a multimedia romantic. He creates suggestive atmospheres by means of highly artificial installations, which have a direct affect on the contemporary feeling for life. Colored lights and seductive music may beguile the observer, but closer inspection of the environments of the photos, sculptures, texts, pen drawings, and filmstrips reveals the odd ruptures and irritating alterations that are always present in...
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