the night of lead
Exhibition view: the night of lead, The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla, León, 2009
Photo © Studio Rondinone
Exhibition view: the night of lead, The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla, León, 2009
Photo © Studio Rondinone
Front:
the 20th hour of the poem, 2005
Wax, pigments
82 cm × 140 cm × 82 cm
Back:
for what? for space and stars?, 2009
Cast aluminum, white enamel
510 cm × 520 cm × 480 cm
Photo © Studio Rondinone
Exhibition view: the night of lead, The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla, León, 2009
Photo © Studio Rondinone
Exhibition view: the night of lead, The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla, León, 2009
Photo © Studio Rondinone
Exhibition view: the night of lead, The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla, León, 2009
Photo © Studio Rondinone
left:
dreissigstermärzzweitausendundneun, 2009
Spray paint on canvas, silkscreen on plexiglass plaque
320 cm × 430 cm
through the doorway:
turn back time.lets start this day again, 2009
Cast aluminum, white enamel
540 cm × 428 cm × 440 cm
right:
zehnteraprilzweitausendundneun, 2009
Spray paint on canvas, silkscreen on plexiglass plaque
320 cm × 430 cm
Photo © Studio Rondinone
Exhibition view: the night of lead, The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla, León, 2009
Photo © Studio Rondinone
Exhibition view: the night of lead, The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla, León, 2009
Photo © Studio Rondinone
Exhibition view: the night of lead, The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla, León, 2009
Photo © Studio Rondinone
still.life. (johns fireplace), 2008
Cast bronze, lead, paint
239 cm × 367 cm × 84 cm
Photo © Studio Rondinone
it’s late and the wind carries a faint sound as it moves through the trees. it could be anything. the jingling of little bells perhaps, or the tiny flickering out of tiny lives. i stroll down the side walk and close my eyes and open them and wait for my mind to go perfectly blank. like a room no one has ever entered, a room without doors or windows. a place where nothing happens., 1999 (detail)
6 dvds, 6 projections, aluminum, plexiglass, neon, sound
1684 cm × 500 cm × 970 cm
Photo © Studio Rondinone
it’s late and the wind carries a faint sound as it moves through the trees. it could be anything. the jingling of little bells perhaps, or the tiny flickering out of tiny lives. i stroll down the side walk and close my eyes and open them and wait for my mind to go perfectly blank. like a room no one has ever entered, a room without doors or windows. a place where nothing happens., 1999 (detail)
6 dvds, 6 projections, aluminum, plexiglass, neon, sound
1684 cm × 500 cm × 970 cm
Photo © Studio Rondinone
it’s late and the wind carries a faint sound as it moves through the trees. it could be anything. the jingling of little bells perhaps, or the tiny flickering out of tiny lives. i stroll down the side walk and close my eyes and open them and wait for my mind to go perfectly blank. like a room no one has ever entered, a room without doors or windows. a place where nothing happens., 1999 (detail)
6 dvds, 6 projections, aluminum, plexiglass, neon, sound
1684 cm × 500 cm × 970 cm
Photo © Studio Rondinone
the night of lead
Ugo Rondinone’s The Night of Lead to be presented at MUSAC, the artist’s only museum exhibition this year Curator: Agustín Pérez Rubio Coordination: Eneas Bernal The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León presents Ugo Rondinone’s solo debut in Spain.
The Night of Lead, curated by Agustín Pérez Rubio, spearheads the calendar of events for 2009. The show will cover 2500 m2, half of the space normally allotted to temporary exhibitions. Ugo Rondinone employs a wide range of registers, accumulated during his last 20 years’ working experience. The result is a complex and melancholic artistic experience, a dreamscape that reflects Rondinone’s fascination with rituals, dreams, poetry and the everyday of the human condition.
