Artists
Ugo Rondinone
Selected Artwork
Purple Black Yellow Blue Mountain, 2015
Painted stones and stainless steel with artist’s concrete base
200 x 40.3 x 40 cm
78 3/4 x 15 7/8 x 15 3/4 in
Blue, red, yellow, green, pink, 2018
Painted stone and stainless steel
196 x 41 x 13.4 cm
77 1/8 x 16 1/8 x 5 1/4 in
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Biography
Ugo Rondinone (Brunnen, Switzerland, 1964), based in New York since 1998, builds monumental installations and sculptures that seem to stop time: fluorescently painted stone totems, clown figures caught in everyday actions, and glowing neon texts coexist in a visual language that is at once contemplative and physically disruptive.
His multidisciplinary practice — sculpture, painting, photography, installation — pairs intense, saturated color with a poetic attention to the passage of time and nature, where the monumental never loses its fragility or its tenderness.
He represented Switzerland at the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007) and created Seven Magic Mountains (Nevada, 2016). His work circulates on the international secondary market; Galería Duque Arango has presented it at Art Miami (2023–2024) and Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary (2025–2026).
