Pat Steir & Ugo Rondinone Waterfalls & Clouds

by Schwabsky, Barry; Rondinone, Ugo; Steir, Pat; Gorvy, Lévy; Presenhuber, Galerie Eva

• ISBN13: 9783969120750
• ISBN10: 3969120756
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-12-01
• Publisher: DCV

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Barry Schwabsky is an American art critic, art historian and poet. Ugo Rondinone is a Swiss-born artist widely recognized for his mastery of several different media— most prominently sculpture, drawing and painting, but also photography, architecture, video and sound. Pat Steir (born 1940) is an American painter and printmaker. Lé vy Gorvy is committed to approaching every art fair booth with the same curatorial rigor granted to our acclaimed exhibitions, publications, and special events. The gallery is unique in its organization of art fair booths, consistently bringing together rare and extraordinary works that cohere as a united presentation both formally and conceptually, often according to a specific art historical theme. Galerie Eva Presenhuber is a leading contemporary art gallery located in Zurich, Vienna and New York.