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Ugo Rondinone — Small Red Black Mountain
Ugo Rondinone

Small Red Black Mountain

2014

A smooth, naturally formed stone painted in a vivid red sits atop a raw stone base, creating a striking dialogue between the artificial and the elemental. Rondinone's intervention is minimal yet transformative, using bold color to charge the ancient, geological material with an almost totemic presence. The work reflects the artist's ongoing meditation on nature, stillness, and the quiet tension between the human impulse to mark and the enduring permanence of the natural world.

Medium
painted stone on stone base

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Ugo Rondinone, Small Red Black Mountain, 2014

A smooth, naturally formed stone painted in a vivid red sits atop a raw stone base, creating a striking dialogue between the artificial and the elemental. Rondinone's intervention is minimal yet transformative, using bold color to charge the ancient, geological material with an almost totemic presence. The work reflects the artist's ongoing meditation on nature, stillness, and the quiet tension between the human impulse to mark and the enduring permanence of the natural world.

Medium
painted stone on stone base
Year
2014
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Red and Black, Abstract Art, Stone Medium, Male Artist, Sculpture, Stacked Stones, Nature Inspired, Land Art, Contemporary Artist, 21st Century, Swiss Artist, Meditative Mood, Abstract, Minimalism

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Alex Capecelatro, Lisa Rembrandt, Nicholas Blum, Paul McNally