UGO RONDINONE | ‘sunrise east’
Grotesque creatures welcomed visitors to the Städel Garden of the Städel Museum. Rondinone transformed the prominent hill above the Garden Halls into a strange landscape. For his group of works sunrise east, Rondinone assigned a head with characteristic, highly reduced facial features to represent each calendar month. Larger than life and cast in shiny silver aluminium, the massive, two-metre-high sculptural heads were reduced to their facial expressions: With mouths agape, they gaze from small eyes, from friendly and naive to skeptical, from surprised to eerie. They evoked a wide range of associations, from ritual masks and ghosts to the visual language of comics, emoticons, and memes.
UGO RONDINONE | The exhibition ‘sunrise east’ by @ugorondinone0
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