Portland Art Museum, Oregon
Now on view
Now permanently on view at the newly expanded Portland Art Museum: Ugo Rondinone’s bronze sculptural work “the sun”.
Visitors can enter the Rothko Pavilion from two sides, traversing expansive plazas punctuated with sculptures by Ugo Rondinone, Roy Lichtenstein, Anthony Caro and Clement Meadmore.
The sun reflects the way in which Rondinone has made use of other circular forms, like clock faces, to suggest the passing of time and space. In his decision to construct the ring by attaching wooden branches overlaid with wire, together with their transformation into heavy but resplendent gilded bronze, he celebrates the paradox of our daily dependence on solar energy and the mythic incarnation of the sun in our imagination.