Fra i tanti eventi di queste giornate a Miami c'è il Bass Museum che riapre ampliando
con un elegante rinnovamento ideato Arata Isozaki, evento speciale la grande
mostra su Ugo Rondinone che propone il progetto "Good evening
beautiful blue" anche con i suoi famosi "pagliacci".
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Spanning the entirety of the museum’s newly designed second floor, good evening beautiful blue by
Ugo Rondinone is part of a major multi-institution retrospective
comprising works that span three decades of the artist’s practice, from
the late 1990s to the present. From poetic installations in public
spaces to life-size drawings, Rondinone’s work balances on the edge of
euphoria and detachment.
good evening beautiful blue begins with Rondinone’s clockwork for oracles II (2008).
The multi-wall installation is comprised of 52-mirrored windows (one
for each week in the year) set against a backdrop of whitewashed pages
from a local newspaper. Visitors encounter their mirrored reflections,
stopping momentarily to contemplate how their temporary presence in the
room contrasts with the dated newsprint behind the windows, which
becomes more distant throughout the duration of the exhibition.
The subsequent gallery houses vocabulary of solitude (2014-2016), the centerpiece of the exhibition and the only work present in all venues of the retrospective. vocabulary of solitude is
an installation of 45 life-size clown figures cast from 22 men and 23
women of various ages and ethnicities. The work takes inspiration from
the artist’s reflection on his daily actions, where each figure is
engaged in a different quotidian activity, such as sleeping, dreaming,
remembering, showering and walking.
Marking its first appearance in the U.S. in nearly two decades, the
final gallery presents an immersive six-channel video installation
titled It’s late 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 sidewalk 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 any
doors or windows. A place where nothing happens. (1998). The
entire room is given a blue tint by an illuminated ceiling, as projected
slow-motion loops of six men and six women, alone in their frames,
perform an unresolved gesture without acknowledging the viewer, like
opening an apartment door, or floating (or sinking) in water. The final
line of the work’s narrative title …A place where nothing happens. aptly
describes the cyclical loop of movements performed by each figure,
resulting in a thought provoking and introspective space. Together, the
selection of works places the visitor in an arena of contemplation and
introspection, confronted by installations that stimulate
self-reflection.
Ugo Rondinone (b. 1964, Brunnen, Switzerland) is a mixed-media artist
who lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include: the world just makes me laugh at Berkeley Art Museum, let’s start this day again at Contemporary Art Center (Cincinnati), giorni d’oro + notti d’argento at Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Seven Magic Mountains organized by Art Production Fund and the Nevada Museum of Art (Nevada), vocabulary of solitude at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen (Rotterdam), i love john giorno at Palais de Tokyo (Paris), artists and poets at Vienna Secession (Vienna), breathe walk die at Rockbund Art Museum (Shanghai), human nature organized by Public Art Fund in Rockefeller Plaza, (New York), we run through a desert on burning feet, all of us are glowing our faces look twisted at Art Institute of Chicago, thank you silence
at M-Museum Leuven (Belgium). His work is in the collections of MoMA
(New York), ICA Boston, SFMOMA, Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), The
Bass (Miami Beach) and Dallas Museum of Art, among others
