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Details
- Date
- 2010
- Media category
- Installation
- Materials used
- mirror, colour plastic gel, wood, paint, mixed media
- Edition
- 1/1 + 1 AP
- Dimensions
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964.0 x 746.0 cm
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a - Part a, 40 x 28 x 3.2 cm
b - Part b, 40 x 28 x 3.2 cm
c - Part c, 40 x 28 x 3.2 cm
d - Part d, 40 x 28 x 3.2 cm
e - Part e, 40 x 28 x 3.2 cm
f - Part f, 40 x 28 x 3.2 cm
g - Part g, 40 x 28 x 3.2 cm
h - Part h, 40 x 28 x 3.2 cm
i - Part i, 60 x 42 x 3.2 cm
j - Part j, 60 x 42 x 3.2 cm
k - Part k, 60 x 42 x 3.2 cm
l - Part l, 60 x 42 x 3.2 cm
m - Part m, 60 x 42 x 3.2 cm
n - Part n, 60 x 42 x 3.2 cm
o - Part o, 60 x 42 x 3.2 cm
p - Part p, 60 x 42 x 3.2 cm
q - Part q, 60 x 42 x 3.2 cm
r - Part r, 80 x 56 x 3.2 cm
s - Part s, 80 x 56 x 3.2 cm
t - Part t, 80 x 56 x 3.2 cm
u - Part u, 80 x 56 x 3.2 cm
v - Part v, 80 x 56 x 3.2 cm
w - Part w, 80 x 56 x 3.2 cm
x - Part x, 80 x 56 x 3.2 cm
y - Part y, 80 x 56 x 3.2 cm
z - Part z, 80 x 56 x 3.2 cm
aa - Part aa, 80 x 56 x 3.2 cm
bb - Part bb, 80 x 56 x 3.2 cm
cc - Part cc, 100 x 70 x 3.2 cm
dd - Part dd, 100 x 70 x 3.2 cm
ee - Part ee, 100 x 70 x 3.2 cm
ff - Part ff, 100 x 70 x 3.2 cm
gg - Part gg, 100 x 70 x 3.2 cm
hh - Part hh, 100 x 70 x 3.2 cm
ii - Part ii, 100 x 70 x 3.2 cm
jj - Part jj, 100 x 70 x 3.2 cm
kk - Part kk, 100 x 70 x 3.2 cm
ll - Part ll, 100 x 70 x 3.2 cm
mm - Part mm, 120 x 84 x 3.2 cm
nn - Part nn, 120 x 84 x 3.2 cm
oo - Part oo, 120 x 84 x 3.2 cm
pp - Part pp, 120 x 84 x 3.2 cm
qq - Part qq, 120 x 84 x 3.2 cm
rr - Part rr, 140 x 98 x 3.2 cm
ss - Part ss, 140 x 98 x 3.2 cm
tt - Part tt, 140 x 98 x 3.2 cm
uu - Part uu, 140 x 98 x 3.2 cm
vv - Part vv, 140 x 98 x 3.2 cm
ww - Part ww, 160 x 112 x 3.2 cm
xx - Part xx, 160 x 112 x 3.2 cm
yy - Part yy, 160 x 112 x 3.2 cm
zz - Part zz, 160 x 112 x 3.2 cm
- Signature & date
Signed l.l. corner Certificate of authenticity, black fibre-tipped pen "urondinone". Not dated.
- Credit
- Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by the John Kaldor Family Collection 2016
- Location
- North Building, lower level 1
- Accession number
- 314.2016.a-zz
- Copyright
- © Ugo Rondinone
- Artist information
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Ugo Rondinone
Works in the collection
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About
Although brightly coloured, Ugo Rondinone’s materially diverse works have a melancholy undertone and present viewers with the inevitable passing of time. The site-specific installation ‘clockwork for oracles’ invokes the latter in both its title and in the 52 pieces that make up the work, corresponding to the number of weeks in the year. The newsprint papering this wall also invokes a specific time – namely the date on which the newspaper was printed – while the reflective surfaces of each opaque window-like form reflect the viewer back to themselves. Collectively, these references to time’s passing and personal reflection engage themes of mortality and finitude.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Seven artists from the John Kaldor Family Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 May 2015–04 Sep 2016
Some mysterious process, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 01 Jun 2020–13 Sep 2020
Making Worlds, Art Gallery of New South Wales, North Building, Sydney, 03 Dec 2022–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Wayne Tunnicliffe (Editor), John Kaldor family collection: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2011, 314, 326 (colour illus.).
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Wayne Tunnicliffe, Look, 'Kaldor and contemporary', pg.26-29, Sydney, Apr 2011, 28.
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