“Finding myself in an empty studio for the last 3 months, I resorted to an intimate work: drawing poems and brushing sunsets and moonrise paintings. This is a good time for me to work in silence—cocooning myself into my own time, these two pastimes I love most and tire of least. The Mattituck paintings show the view from my studio window across the Long Island Sound.”
— Ugo Rondinone
“My first summer in Mattituck was a revelation, forcing me to examine my surroundings with the freshness of a friendly alien. Every day, just when the twilight started, John and I would set our chairs in position and experience a new sunset, a magical illumination of the ordinary—lucid and lyrical. Looking at the sunset makes one feel that the physical and the spiritual are not separate.”
— Ugo Rondinone
Sadie Coles Gallery booth at Frieze London 2022, featuring a solo presentation of sold-out works by Ugo Rondinone of Mattituck paintings
Provenance
Galerie Krobath, Vienna Acquired from the above by the present owner
signed and dated '"elftermaizweitausendundzweiundzwanzig" ugo rondinone 2022' on the overlap watercolour on canvas, in artist's frame 32 x 47 cm. (12 5/8 x 18 1/2 in.) Executed in 2022.