An image of all MOMENTS stop here and together we become every memory that has ever been.

Ugo Rondinone

(Switzerland 1963– )

all MOMENTS stop here and together we become every memory that has ever been.

Location
Contemporary galleries
Further information

Spanning a broad array of material practices and media, Ugo Rondinone’s works are often unsettling and deal with themes of isolation and disenchantment. At once distinct and interrelated, the works installed in this room cross-pollinate, shaping a single narrative. The looped conversation of the wall and sound installation ‘what do you want?’ suggests a relationship permeated with miscommunication, doubt and loneliness. Coupled with this soundtrack, the reclining clown in ‘if there were anywhere but desert. Wednesday’ appears bored and disaffected. In a similar vein of inversion and directionlessness, ‘all MOMENTS stop here and together we become every memory that has ever been’. resembles a window, yet rather than opening onto a view, it reflects the interior space back onto itself in sombre black tones.

Year
2002
Media
Sculpture
Medium
plexiglass
Dimensions
160.4 x 150.2 x 3.0cm
Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
Credit
John Kaldor Family Collection at the Art Gallery of New South Wales
Accession number
L2011.47
Copyright
© the artist