Pat Steir & Ugo Rondinone
Waterfalls & Clouds

Editor(s)

Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Lévy Gorvy

Author(s)

Barry Schwabsky

Design

Book Book, Berlin

Cover

Softcover

Size

24,5 x 31,5 cm

Pages

56

Illustrations

54

Language(s)

English

ISBN

978-3-96912-075-0

The imposing installation Waterfalls & Clouds consists of three sculptures by the Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone (b. Brunnen, Switzerland, 1964; lives and works in New York) and nineteen paintings by the American Pat Steir (b. Newark, NJ, 1940; lives and works in New York). The three large gray monoliths of concrete, sand, and gravel bear the titles Faces, Look, and Twisted and are part of a series of twenty works created in 2018. They are surrounded by nineteen tall and narrow black oil paintings titled Flags for Ugo #1 through #19 (2021); with colorful or white paint streaming down the canvases, they hark back to Steir’s Waterfall series from the 1980s. A symbiotic relationship connects the works: the sculptures, in which erosion is integral to the art, embody time, while the pictures symbolize gravity and hence nature as such.

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