Press Release
Aspen Art Museum is pleased to present the rainbow body, Ugo Rondinone’s (b. 1964, Brunnen, Switzerland) first major institutional show in Colorado in a career spanning over three decades. The Museum’s second-floor gallery is recast as a prismatic arena where fluorescent, lifelike sculptures of dancers sit at rest and in waiting. In his practice at large, Rondinone is celebrated for expansive installations, working with photography, painting, poetry, outdoor sculpture, and neon rainbow signage. His visual vocabulary often incorporates the natural and primordial world, wherein rocks, clouds, trees, and the sun are recurrent motifs. Language and systems of communication such as lyrics or slogans mark other modes of exploring human subjectivity and experience.
