The Bass Museum of Art has reopened after an extensive renovation, and the entire second floor has been taken over by UGO RONDINONE—GOOD EVENING BEAUTIFUL BLUE, which includes the sculptural installations clockwork for oracles II (2008), and vocabulary of solitude (2014–2016).
In addition, the artist has installed his six-channel video from 1998, It’s late It’s late and the wind carries a faint sound as it moves through the trees. It could be anything. The jingling of little bells perhaps, or the tiny flickering out of tiny lives. I stroll down the sidewalk and close my eyes and open them and wait for my mind to go perfectly blank. Like a room no one has ever entered, a room without any doors or windows. A place where nothing happens.
UGO RONDINONE—GOOD EVENING BEAUTIFUL BLUE, through February 19.
BASS MUSEUM OF ART, 2100 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach.
Ugo Rondinone, vocabulary of solitude, 2014–2016. Image credit: The Bass.
