Pat Steir & Ugo Rondinone: Waterfalls & Clouds

By Barry Schwabsky

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3969120756
• ISBN13: 9783969120750
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: DCV
• Length: 56 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 9.7" x 12.4"