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UGO RONDINONE
Title | primitive, 2011
Media |60parts: cast bronze patinated, stained-glass window, steel frame; site-specific
dimensions
Artist |Ugo Rondinone, *1964, Brunnen, Switzerland
Lives and works inNew York, NY, United States
Gallery |Presenhuber
Galerie Eva Presenhuber
CH-8005 Zürich |Diagonal Building, Maag Areal, Zahnradstrasse 21
Phone +41 434447050 |Fax +41 434447060
info@presenhuber.com |www.presenhuber.com
Directors |Eva Presenhuber, Markus Rischgasser
Artwork Description |The work primitive, conceived in 2011, consists ofagroup of 59 bird figures
and aclock made from stained glass with no hands. The clock is cast into the
wall and illuminated, and the bird sculptures are installed sporadically across
the whole ofthe exhibition space. Molded in various positions and sizes, they all
face different directions (like individuals within acollective). The sculptures’
surfaces are covered with dense networks offingerprints, forming stylized reliefs,
and, thus, breaking with the conventions of figurative ‘realistic’ sculpture. Revealing
the artist’s ‘interfering’ hand, these bird sculptures represent an attempt
to document the working process and preserve the un-preservable: duration.
The clockwork without hands refers also to this consciousness of time.
primitive, 2011
Exhibition view, Galerie Eva
Presenhuber, Zurich, 2011