Cigarettesandwich
10 September - 12 October 2002
35 Heddon Street, London W1
Cigarettesandwich comprises four huge Arcadian landscapes. With the windows covered up and walls draped in Hessian, the gallery is transformed into a cocoon. Within this stage setting, the exquisite delicacy and detail of the black ink on paper drawings is offset by their scale. The density of the images renders the negative landscapes threateningly impenetrable, but curiosity inexorably draws us in like the lost children of fairy tales.
The landscapes reflect the artist’s interest in disrupting boundaries, be they physical, mental, biological or social. This disquieting installation reasserts Rondinone's ability to upset our equilibrium, making us question our powers of perception and reconsider our need for neat compartmentalisation.