burn to shine Ugo Rondinone
November 8, 2023—January 1, 2024
Fosun Foundation, Shanghai

burn to shine Ugo Rondinone

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Exhibition view, Ugo Rondinone: burn to shine 为闪耀而燃烧, FOSUN Foundation, 2023. Courtesy of studio rondinone and FOSUN Foundation; Sadie Coles HQ, London; Gladstone, New York; Kukje Gallery, Seoul; Mennour, Paris; Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich; Esther Schipper, Berlin, Paris, Seoul.

Press Release

The exhibition takes its title from American poet and artist John Giorno’s 1994 poem of the same name. A Buddhist maxim equating life and death, it evokes a range of metaphors of death and rebirth from ancient Greek to Chinese folk mythology, inspiring contemplation of life and nature.

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Selected works

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Ugo Rondinone
dreizehnterseptemberzweitausenddreiundzwanzig, 2023
Watercolor on canvas, artist's frame
30,5 x 45,7 cm (unframed)
31,8 x 47 cm (framed)
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Ugo Rondinone
elfterseptemberzweitausenddreiundzwanzig, 2023
Watercolor on canvas, artist's frame
20,3 x 30,5 cm (unframed)
21,6 x 31,8 cm (framed)

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Ugo Rondinone is recognized as one of the major voices of his generation, an artist who composes searing meditations on nature and the human condition while establishing an organic formal vocabulary that...