Contemporary artist Ugo Rondinone’s solo exhibition, UGO RONDINONE. arched landscape, is currently on view at the Belvedere Museum in Vienna, Austria.

Rondinone has donated his minimalist sculpture arched landscape (2016) to the Belvedere Museum and installed it at the center of Carlone Hall, where it resonates with the spatial context under the Baroque ceiling fresco by Carlo Innocenzo Carlone (1686–1775).
The massive arch-shaped sculpture draws the audience’s attention to the work and invites them to look through the arched frame to the landscape beyond. arched landscape is primarily made of soil, an organic substance, granting it a unique, sensual quality. The spatial context together with its materiality represents an interplay between nature and culture—much like Carlone’s frescoes, arched landscape reflects a contrast between vulnerability and strength, as well as the internal structure of the self and the external world. Furthermore, the exhibition offers an opportunity to reinterpret the concept of the Baroque sublime from a contemporary perspective.

This extraordinary encounter between Carlone’s fresco, a masterpiece of 17th-century Baroque art, and Rondinone’s sculpture, will be on view until March 16, 2025.