Read Rondinone's CV

"With this exhibition, and its relentless, swing between emotional and esthetic poles, what had seemed casually eclectic in his work, suddenly appeared meticulously thought out. A suprising and impressive exhibition."

Christopher Phillips, 'Ugo Rondinone at Matthew Marks', Art in America, summer 2000

"With his blend of cross-references, icons, signs and elusive traces, and his mixture of attraction and repulsion, excitement and boredom, clarity and confusion, intensity, emptiness, laughter and melancholy, Ugo Rondinone's work is shown in a separate dimension. It is suspended in non-time and non-space where reality, fiction, possibility and effect are intimately linked in a discourse which bonds art and life, aesthetics and mental experience, in an extrememly personal and poetically productive vision."

Stefano Chiodi, 'Ugo Rondinone - Galeria Raucci/Santamaria Naples', Tema Celeste, No.82, 2000

"A Swiss artist in his mid-thirties, Ugo Rondinone seems to have a fairly alpine view of his generation and his culture: he's seen everything and, with proverbial thrift (and, simultaneously, with expensive tastes), has found use for a great deal of it. In work that includes paintings, photographs, drawings, and video installations, Rondinone has struck a pose of glacial cool, too stoned for melancholy, too smart for simple cynicism, but with languor and glamour spare."

Nancy Princenthal, 'Artist's Book Beat', Art On Paper, May-June, 2001.