Ugo Rondinone - Contemporary Art Part I New York Thursday, November 15, 2007 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Saatchi Collection, London; Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich; Private collection, Europe

  • Exhibited


    Geneva, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Ugo Rondinone: Heyday, January 26 -
    April 28, 1996; Donaueschingen, Fürstenberg Sammlungen, Ahead of the 21st Century: The
    Pisces Collection, June - October, 2002

  • Literature


    Centre d’Art Contemporain, ed., Ugo Rondinone: Heyday, Geneva, 1996, pp. 4
    and 56 (illustrated); U. Rondinone and S. Schreider, eds., Ugo Rondinont: No How On,
    Cologne, 2002, n.p. (illustrated); U. Grosenick, ed., Ahead of the 21st Century: The Pisces
    Collection, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2002, No. 102, p. 137 (illustrated); A. Tarsia, ed., Ugo Rondinone –
    zero built a nest around my navel, London, 2006, p. 49 (illustrated)

  • Catalogue Essay

    "The black ink, the mechanical application, and the enlargement revitalize the illusionistic effect of the motifs- pre-industrial landscapes- in which a way usually leads from the foreground to the background of the picture. A diagonal entrée of this kind pilots the viewer ‘into’ the picture, whose format undoubtedly makes it easier for the viewer to identify physically with the pictorial space. The rhetoric of pure, untouched nature, of an idyllic, ‘more natural’ condition certainly is effective. But at the same time the time level implicit in the landscape rhetoric is clearly divided from our own. This break is finally reinforced by the detailed caption that each picture carries, in each case is the date the Indian ink drawing was manufactured, in capital letters and without spaces between the words. This is however less like an abstract discourse about time and sense of time, but more an indication that the space or landscape depicted is being subjectivized. Making a stereotyped landscape presentation private reveals that we are faced with a psychic landscape here. In this sense Ugo Rondinone is representing a relation: between a subject (the one inscribing the date) and the stereotype that can be charged with fantasies, wishes, and longings." A.Tarsia, ed., Ugo Rondinone –zero built a nest around my navel, London, 2006

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No. 69 VIERUNDZWANZIGSTERNOVEMBERNEUNZEHNHUNDERTFÜNFUNDNEUNZIG

1995
India ink on paper mounted to canvas.
107 7/8 x 196 7/8 in. (274 x 500.1 cm).

Estimate
$300,000 - 400,000 

Sold for $385,000

Contemporary Art Part I

15 Nov 2007, 7pm
New York