Ugo Rondinone designs art edition for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Ugo Rondinone works as a conceptual, media, and installation artist, creating large-format woodcuts, abstract paintings, sculptures, photographs, videos, and comics. In the Saturday edition of the NZZ, Rondinone shared his art with the public and invited readers to follow it and see where it leads them.
In an interview with features editor Benedict Neff, Ugo Rondinone explains what attracted him to the New Zurich Newspaper into an art object: "The daily newspapers are less and less interested in art. Gallery exhibitions are no longer discussed. Museum policy is not debated with any perseverance. The opportunity to create colorful pages for the NZZ-I'm not going to miss out on the opportunity to fill a newspaper with readers. It turns a newspaper into portable public art."
As a gay man, Rondinone saw his lifetime limited by the AIDS crisis, as he says in the interview. Time and transience, mortality and infinity, the present and timelessness, but also the existence of man in contrast to that of nature occupied him from then on. His work has made him one of the most important contemporary artists - or, as he says, an "artist of light" who wants to open windows and doors with his work. His work celebrates life, its seasons and rhythms, its plants and stones.
The feature section of the current art issue of the New Zurich Newspaper sheds light on the artist's work and life. In addition to an interview, readers can expect a portrait by feature editor Philipp Meier.
In addition to the art edition, Ugo Rondinone has created two works exclusively for the NZZ: a series of 27 unique sculptures of his famous "Mountains" and a screen print from the series "The Sun" in a limited edition of 150 pieces.
