No. 176 NEUNZEHNTERMAERZZWEITAUSENDUNDNULL

Details

Ugo Rondinone (B. 1964)
No. 176 NEUNZEHNTERMAERZZWEITAUSENDUNDNULL
ink on paper in artist's frame with Plexiglas plaque
80 1/8 x 119 1/8in. (203.5 x 302.5cm.)
Executed in 2000

Provenance

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2000.

Literature

Ugo Rondinone: Zero Built a Nest in my Navel, exh. cat., Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2006 (illustrated, p. 198).

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Lot Essay

In his large-scale black-and-white drawings Ugo Rondinone evokes the romantic tradition of landscape painting, charting a dark nocturnal journey through a forest with his meticulous rendering and monochrome palette. These works depict the countryside outside Zurich, where Rondinone would often take strolls. He began keeping a sketchbook of these excursions in 1989, working some of them up into formal works, such as No. 176 NEUNZEHNTERMAERZZWEITAUSENDUNDNULL.

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