Stars, Portfolio mit 6 Blatt, 2006
Ugo Rondinone

Vita and reputation of the artist Swiss-born Ugo Rondinone (*1964, Brunnen) studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna from 1985-90. He lives and works in New York. Ugo Rondinone's work can be categorized as conceptual art. Rondinone works with a wide variety of media, including painting, drawing and graphics, photography, video, sculpture and installations. His public installations at Rockefeller Plaza in New York, in the Nevada desert near Las Vegas or in the park at Versailles have become particularly well known. His works have been and continue to be shown internationally in solo exhibitions, for example at the Center Pompidou in Paris, the Kunsthalle Hamburg, the Kunsthalle Wien, the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt am Main and the MoMa New York. "Ugo Rondinone is a world star whose works are equally appreciated at biennials and art fairs" - judges art critic Catrin Lorch (Süddeutsche Zeitung, 11.08.2022). The themes of Rondinone's art Ugo Rondinone's central themes include the examination of space and time, eternity and transience as well as nature and culture or artificiality. Many of the works are poetic or playful and humorous. Rondine often avoids creating overly complex art that is difficult for the viewer to comprehend, instead aiming to create accessible art that the viewer can easily enter into a dialog with. "The energy of art is that you...