A facsimile of the artist's book created by Ugo Rondinone in 1998 in response to the AIDS crisis.
In the midst of the AIDS crisis, Western society became fearful and homophobic. Ugo Rondinone wanted to react to this new wave, which pushed homosexuals back into the closet and ostracized them, by creating a realistic character confronted with this crisis. Between 1992 and 1998, he wrote and drew five diaries, fictions of a gay artist and drug addict living in Zurich, named Ugo.
For the Biennale Son, the 1998 audio version is accompanied by a new edition of that year's diary, co-published by Biennale Son and KaPa Books.
Ugo Rondinone (*1963, Switzerland) has lived in New York for several years. Using photography, video, painting, drawing, sculpture, sound, and text by turns, Rondinone is a virtuoso of forms and techniques.
Developing surprising sensorial environments, he especially likes destabilizing our perceptions and unsettling our certainties. Rearranging content and formal elements, a personal poetic with elements taken directly from the outside world, he draws us into a synesthetic experience.
See also
Palais #22 – Ugo Rondinone – I Love John Giorno;
Bomb #140;
Album – On/around the work of Urs Fischer, Yves Netzhammer, Ugo Rondinone and Christine Streuli.
