Installation view: Clouds + Mountains
Asides from thinking it must have been a joy to stretch
those curvaceous cloud canvases there’s a serious ethereal edge to the sponged
pigment floating on the surface to Rondinone’s Cloud paintings. Titled after
the dates produced the Cloud
paintings lift the Mountain
sculptures into a hyper-landscape. Stacked and painted in a coat of day-glo
colours the rocks form towers poised to topple and are lit with a neon
luminosity grounded by concrete plinths.
Shaped by nature there’s a touch of the haptic in the linear
Waterfall sculptures. Strung out in
hand modelled clay and cast in aluminium the fluid form rises and falls in the
space, cutting a thin line through the gallery and closing the space into
sectioned areas for viewers to marvel at the spiralling fountain forms like
tourists at the Trevi fountains.
Grounded by natural phenomena the works hover as if in a
state of metamorphosis, the tension in the varying weights of the works is
dissolved in a dialogue dictating spatial relationships and the viewer’s
negotiation of the gallery space. Like a lost wanderer in the landscape the
viewer navigates Rondinone’s works walking around the Mountains and under the Waterfall
guided by a clear blue sky.
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