October 31, 2013—April 20, 2014
Art Institute of Chicago
we run through a desert on burning feet, all of us are glowing our faces twisted Ugo Rondinone
Press Release
The Art Institute of Chicago presents a selection of five towering sculptures by Swiss-born, New York–based artist Ugo Rondinone. These works, completed in 2013, are part of a series that the artist began in 2007 known as Scholar Rocks, a reference to stones found in China’s Tai Lake region that were traditionally collected by scholars and used as ornaments for reflection. The stones, most standing at less than a foot in height and riddled with...