Sadie Coles HQ is excited to return to Frieze London this year with a solo presentation of Ugo Rondinone's 'Mattituck' paintings, a series first initiated in 2020.
The works in the series comprise a body of watercolour paintings on canvas that range in scale from the intimate to the monumental. Each iteration depicts the view over the Long Island Sound estuary from the artist's studio window, diaristically recording the daily rhythms of the sun and moon cycles as abstracted, trichromatic compositions.
Meditating upon a single viewpoint, the solar and lunar progressions are transposed as existential cyphers for space and time, interlacing that of physical and spiritual experience. Their essential representation, as pulsating horizontal bands of colour and celestial patterns suffusing the imagery with that of the transcendental. The works in the series likewise reflect the artist's enduring exploration of the natural world, as a constant source of restoration and renewal; and in which the sacred and the everyday exist in harmony.
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