Ugo Rondinone: Guided by Voices Book

Edited by Beatrix Ruf. Essays by Jan Avgikos, Beatrix Ruf, and Jan Winkelmann. Echoing Rimbaud's "Je est un autre," Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone uses the question of identity as a main theme in his multimedia creations. His works are a balancing act of ambiguities--from art to commerce, the fashionably hip to melancholic withdrawal, seduction to rejection. Exemplifying these undercurrents are his photo montages, in which he places his face onto the bodies of famous models in sometimes elegant, sometimes lascivious poses. This book documents Rondinone's activity over the past six years, presenting a variety of works, diary entries in the style of underground comics, videos capturing the banality of everyday life, hypnotizing circle pictures, clowns, hermetic spatial installations, and monumental brush and ink landscape pictures.Read More