Ugo Rondinone
(Switzerland 1963– )
- Title
- all MOMENTS stop here and together we become every memory that has ever been.
- Year
- 2002
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- plexiglass
- Edition
- unique
- Dimensions
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160.4 x 150.2 x 3.0cm
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- John Kaldor Family Collection at the Art Gallery of New South Wales
- Accession number
- L2011.47
- Copyright
- © the artist
- Location
- Contemporary galleries
- Further information
Spanning a broad array of material practices and media, Ugo Rondinone’s works are often unsettling and deal with themes of isolation and disenchantment. At once distinct and interrelated, the works installed in this room cross-pollinate, shaping a single narrative. The looped conversation of the wall and sound installation ‘what do you want?’ suggests a relationship permeated with miscommunication, doubt and loneliness. Coupled with this soundtrack, the reclining clown in ‘if there were anywhere but desert. Wednesday’ appears bored and disaffected. In a similar vein of inversion and directionlessness, ‘all MOMENTS stop here and together we become every memory that has ever been’. resembles a window, yet rather than opening onto a view, it reflects the interior space back onto itself in sombre black tones.
- Bibliography (3)
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Sophie Forbat (Australia) (Editor), 40 years: Kaldor Public Art Projects, Sydney, 2009, 197 (colour illus.). illustration is an installation view
Juliana Engberg (Australia) (Author), Ugo Rondinone: Clockwork for Oracle, Melbourne, 2004.
Adam Free (Australia) (Author), Journey to now: John Kaldor art projects and collection, Adelaide, 2003, 61.
- Exhibition history (3)
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Journey to Now: John Kaldor Art Projects and Collection, Art Gallery of South Australia, 18 Apr 2003–06 Jul 2003.
Ugo Rondinone: Our Magic Hour, Museum of Contemporary Art, 25 Jun 2003–31 Aug 2003.
Ugo Rondinone: Clockwork for Oracle, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 28 Jan 2004–07 Mar 2004.
