#cloudinspo

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(Cloud on a Boat), 1963 by Méret Oppenheim

Plaster over metal armature

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four clouds, 1985 by Méret Oppenheim

pen on paper

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Preliminary study for clouds, 1971 by Méret Oppenheim

Print, Watermark and pencil on white cotton paper

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Wolke, 1963 by Méret Oppenheim

Oil on canvas

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Sterne hinter Wolken, 1967 by Méret Oppenheim

Crayon on paper

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Large Sky with Clouds over Continents, 1964 by Méret Oppenheim

clouds are a recurring theme in Meret Oppenheim’s work. Interpreted through various techniques, here they occupy the pictorial space of this large canvas without any vanishing point, nor any perspective beyond the accumulation and arrangement of shapes one behind the other. 

From 1953, Meret Oppenheim’s clouds conveyed an extremely wide range of expressions, and were even transposed into three dimensions, materialized in bronze. 

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“diary paintings: CLOUDS” by UGO RONDINONE

ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, SILKSCREEN ON PLEXIGLASS PLAQUE 

The notion of temporality is, moreover, implied by the word “diary” in the title. Like Rondinone’s series of so-called “diary paintings,” which he started in 2008, with each work taking as its title the day of its creation, the clouds seem to represent the passing of lifetime. 

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DREIUNDZWANZIGSTERJULIZWEITAUSENDUNDSECHZEHN, 2016 by UGO RONDINONE

ACRYLIC ON CANVAS