Rizzoli releases a limited edition of Ugo Rondinone: The Sun

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Rizzoli releases a limited edition of Ugo Rondinone: The Sun
Sometimes referred to as mandala works, the Sun paintings fill the viewer’s field of vision with pulsing color.



NEW YORK, NY.- New York–based, Swiss-born conceptual artist Ugo Rondinone’s Sun paintings are among his most celebrated series. Started in 1992 and spanning three decades, the Sun works reflect Rondinone’s interests in nineteenth-century German Romanticism and Tibetan mysticism as vehicles to explore natural phenomena and interior states. In Ugo Rondinone: The Sun, the artist’s paintings are reproduced at unprecedented scale in a display-worthy elephant folio, published in a signed limited edition of 345 copies.

Rondinone began the Sun series by directing his gaze inward, translating his emotional state to circular bands of watercolor. To create distance between these diaristic studies and the viewer, Rondinone then altered the media and scale: expanding the Suns to more than seven feet in diameter and exchanging tremulous watercolor for seamless airbrush. Maintaining a consistent form and naming strategy—the German date of the work—Rondinone cycled through more than 373 color combinations, ranging from strong contrasts to barely perceptible shifts.

Sometimes referred to as mandala works, the Sun paintings fill the viewer’s field of vision with pulsing color. At 19 x 22 inches, this oversized tome creates an intense optical experience at close range. Complete with reproductions of all 221 large suns, 140 small suns, a booklet of the artist’s watercolors, and an illustrated essay by Bob Nickas, Ugo Rondinone: The Sun is the most comprehensive source on the series to date.

Bob Nickas is a writer and curator based in New York. He has organized over 120 exhibitions since 1984. He served as a curatorial advisor at MoMA/PS1 between 2004 and 2007 and on the teams for the 2003 Biennale de Lyon and Greater New York 2005 at MoMA/PS1. He was founding editor of Index magazine. His books include Painting Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting and four collections of writing and interviews.










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