Sadie Coles

Ugo Rondinone

13 Oct - 21 Nov 2009

© Ugo Rondinone
still.life. (pine tree laying in a corner), 2008
UGO RONDINONE
"Nude"

13 October – 21 November 2009

69 South Audley St London W1

For his latest solo show at Sadie Coles HQ, Ugo Rondinone is displaying new sculptures from his ongoing still.life. series. Tree trunks, walnuts, potatoes and other everyday objects and materials have been cast in lead-filled bronze, echoing the lowly or perishable items traditionally depicted in still life paintings. Rondinone’s subjects also glance back to the simple materials of arte povera in the 1960s and after. Yet Rondinone inflects that movement’s methodology of appropriation, supplanting the concept of the readymade with a process of artful and painstaking fabrication.
 

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