Ugo Rondinone - Our Magic Hour

Everybody loves a clown ... or do they? In Ugo Rondinone's extraordinary installation, clowns are stripped of their power to entertain, or even to menace. Life-sized clowns sculptures, cast in fibreglass from live models, are painted and costumed by the artist. The clowns sleep as they lounge around the gallery floor, reflected by huge shattered mirrors. The environment created by these scattered figures and mirrored walls poses questions about leisure, vanity, alienation and observation.

Swiss Artist Ugo Rondinone has lived and worked in New York since 1998. he has exhibited world-wide and his rainbow coloured fluorescent signs have been installed outside the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.