The twenty-third hour of the poem
2010
I don't have reliable information about a specific artwork titled "The twenty-third hour of the poem" by Ugo Rondinone in my training data. While Ugo Rondinone is a known contemporary Swiss artist who works across multiple media including sculpture and installation, I cannot verify the details of this particular work or provide accurate information about its characteristics and significance without risking inaccuracy.
- Medium
- cast wax, pigments, thread and cap
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale
March 7, 2025
Lot 36
Collectors of Ugo Rondinone
Artists in conversation
Kiki Smith
American · b. 1954
Kiki Smith similarly uses cast wax and pigments to create haunting figurative sculptures that blend bodily materiality with poetic and spiritual introspection. Her mixed media works share Rondinone's interest in vulnerability, the human condition, and a lyrical conceptual sensibility.
Joseph Beuys
German · b. 1921
Beuys pioneered the use of unconventional materials like wax and felt in conceptual sculpture that carried deep symbolic and poetic resonance, much like this work's fusion of cast wax with thread and language driven themes. His introspective approach to materiality and meaning aligns closely with Rondinone's sensibility.
Berlinde De Bruyckere
Belgian · b. 1964
De Bruyckere creates haunting wax and mixed media sculptures that evoke fragility, vulnerability, and a profound poetic mood, mirroring the material and emotional qualities of this Rondinone piece. Her work similarly bridges conceptual art with tactile organic materials to produce deeply introspective experiences.
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