Ugo Rondinone - Contemporary Art Part I New York Thursday, May 13, 2010 | Phillips

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  • Provenance


    Acquired directly from the artist

  • Catalogue Essay


    If time is an arrow, one way for the artist to affect its course might be to demonstrate how perception can be altered through time. Given the social space in which this might be attempted, I imagine that a perfect audience for Rondinone would be his identical twin, a second self with spookily similar perceptions, but enough of an individual to argue the toss of any work.
    P. Timoney, “Ugo Rondinone,” Frieze, June/August 1998
     
    Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone has spent his formidable career working in a diverse range of mediums, exploring the psychological and emotional impact of simple, often banal, elements of everyday life. Since the mid-1990’s, the artist has created mesmerizing circular pictures that create a specific atmosphere and seem to resonate sound. Referential of Jasper Johns’ Targets and 1960s Op Art pictures, Rondinone’s target paintings project a fresh, contemporary aesthetic through his use of spray paint and a smooth, blurred finish. The present lot is exemplary of this series. A deep, hypnotizing visual well, the work seems to pulsate and threatens to swallow onlookers, at once attracting and engaging its viewers.

105

21. Mai 2006

2006

Acrylic on linen.

Diameter : 31 1/2 in. (80 cm).

Estimate
$60,000 - 80,000 

Sold for $104,500

Contemporary Art Part I

13 May 2010
New York