Artist Ugo Rondinone has, for the first time, created a series of seven masks, veritable wearable sculptures in gold, realised in collaboration with goldsmith Pierre Hugo.
Ugo Rondinone is a major artist of the contemporary art scene. For the past twenty years he has explored, in an often enigmatic manner, themes of fantasy and desire through various media such as installation, photography, video, painting and sculpture.
In his works, he delves into the psychological and emotional depths of the human being through the most mundane elements of daily life, multiplying references to literature, music and theatre, creating sensory environments by combining notions of interiority and exteriority.
Ugo Rondinone was born in in Brunnen, Switzerland. He lives and works in New York, in the United States. His work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions worldwide, including at the Consortium in Dijon in , the Kunstverein Stuttgart in , and the Centre Pompidou in Pierre Hugo is regarded, together with his father Francois Hugo, as the foremost manufacturer of artist's jewellery in the world.
So much so that from then on, he became his exclusive jeweller. Since then, he has created 23 carat sculptures and gold jewellery in close collaboration with the greatest artists of his time: Arp, Cocteau, Derain, Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Lurcat, Matta, Picasso and Dorothea Tanning Pierre Hugo continues the tradition by realising this ensemble of seven masks in 23 carat gold after original sculptures by Ugo Rondinone, created by the artist especially for this purpose.
