Swiss conceptual artist Ugo Rondinone has converted Barbara Gladstone’s gallery into an elegant cave featuring plaster-covered walls and stacked stone anthropomorphs. Rondinone channels his own family’s past as cave dwellers to create this clan of simple bluestone characters whose titles (‘glad,’ ‘blessed,’ ‘shocked’) add to their surprising charm. (At Barbara Gladstone Gallery’s 21st Street Chelsea space through July 3rd. See their larger cousins at Rockefeller Center through July 4th).
Ugo Rondinone, ‘soul,’ installation view at Barbara Gladstone Gallery, May 2013.