New York based, Swiss-born conceptual artist Ugo Rondinone’s Sun paintings

are among his most celebrated series. Begun in 1992 and spanning three decades, the Sun works reflect Rondinone s interests in nineteenth-century German

Romanticism and Tibetan mysticism as vehicles to explore natural phenomena and interior states. Rondinone began the sun series by directing his gaze inward (a counterpoint to his contemporaneous plein air works), translating his emotional state to circular bands of watercolour on paper. To create distance between these diaristic studies and the viewer, Rondinone then altered the media and scale: expanding the Suns to more than seven feet in diameter and exchanging tremulous watercolour for seamless airbrush. Maintaining a consistent form and naming strategy the German date of the work Rondinone cycled through more than 435 colour combinations, each specific to a day, ranging from strong contrasts to barely perceptible shifts. Sometimes referred to as mandala works, the Sun paintings fill the viewer s field of vision with pulsing colour. At 19 x 22 inches, this elephant folio creates an intense optical experience at close range. Complete with reproductions of all 271 large works and 164 smaller canvases and prints, Ugo Rondinone: The Sun will be the most comprehensive source on the series to date.

乌戈·罗迪尼（Ugo Rondinone）是一位工作在纽约的瑞士混合媒体艺术家。他的太阳画是他最著名的系列作品之一。从1992年开始，跨越了三十年，太阳作品反映了罗迪尼对十九世纪德国浪漫主义和西藏神秘主义的兴趣，作为探索自然现象和内部状态的载体。罗迪尼开始创作太阳系列，将他的目光投向内部（与他同时代的户外作品相对应），将他的情绪状态转化为纸上的圆形水彩画带。为了在这些日记式的研究和观众之间创造距离，罗迪尼随后改变了媒体和规模：将太阳扩大到直径超过7英尺，并将颤抖的水彩换成了无缝的气刷。保持一致的形式和命名策略，罗迪尼通过超过435种颜色组合进行循环，每一种都是针对某一天的，从强烈的对比到几乎察觉不到的变化。有时被称为曼陀罗作品，太阳画让观众的视野充满了跳动的色彩。这本大象对开本的尺寸为19 x 22英寸，在近距离内创造了一种强烈的光学体验。本书展出了271幅大型作品和164幅小型帆布画和印刷品的复制品，将是迄今为止关于这个系列的较为全面的资料。