Ugo Rondinone
[Limited Edition 5-Volume Box Set]
Milano, Italy: Mousse Publishing, 2018
5 × 24.5 × 31.5 cm.
Edition of 100 signed and numbered copies
"A specially designed box contains a series of five books conceived by the New York–based Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone (b. 1964), published over two years to accompany a cycle of exhibitions devoted to works inspired by the color spectrum, with the centerpiece being Vocabulary of Solitude, forty-five life-size sculptures of clowns. With their different postures, the clowns represent activities of everyday life, at the same time expressing the anguish of human solitude: be, breathe, sleep, dream, wake, rise, sit, hear, look, think, stand, walk, pee, shower, dress, drink, fart, shit, read, laugh, cook, smell, taste, eat, clean, write, daydream, remember, cry, nap, touch, feel, moan, enjoy, float, love, hope, wish, sing, dance, fall, curse, yawn, undress, lie. In the presentations in Miami, Rotterdam, Rome, Cincinnati, and Berkeley, the mannequins’ apparent isolation and introspection triggered extreme audience interaction and engagement. Solitude was defied, if only for a moment."
- press release
Available from the publisher, here, for € 150.
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