Ugo Rondinone (B. 1964)

In his large-scale black-and-white drawings Ugo Rondinone evokes the romantic tradition of landscape painting, charting a dark nocturnal journey through a forest with his meticulous rendering and monochrome palette. These works depict the countryside outside Zurich, where Rondinone would often take strolls. He began keeping a sketchbook of these excursions in 1989, working some of them up into formal works, such as No. 176 NEUNZEHNTERMAERZZWEITAUSENDUNDNULL.