Ugo Rondinone
The Pleased and the Delighted
In *The Pleased and the Delighted*, Ugo Rondinone works with bluestone sourced from a quarry near his Pennsylvania home, a material he first embraced in 2013 after years of exploring diverse media including wax, paint, stained glass, bronze, lead, and earth. The sculpture belongs to a body of work remarkable for the tension it holds between the maximally abstract and the maximally particular, where the raw specificity of a locally sourced stone is transformed into form that feels universal and timeless.
- Medium
- In 2013, Rondinone decided to work with stone. Hitherto, he had explored media ranging from wax, paint and stained glass, to bronze, lead and earth. His use of the bluestone from the quarry near his Pennsylvania house, however, engendered a set of works unique in their conjunction of the maximally abstract and the maximally particular.
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale
June 27, 2016
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