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rach 🐚 @anewerarealchairs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ugo Rondinone 🌈🪨🌈

The incredibly slow passage of time, as seen in an olive tree, and the fleeting moments of human experience are key motifs in Rondinone's hugely varied body of work. Rondinone paints, sculpts, creates films, photographs, installations and works of land art, yet in each work he draws the view back to his central concern: the human condition and its place in space and time. "I see the world as a mysterious place where appearances are deceptive and ultimate reality is rarely perceived. A world where each individual creates its own time and space," he says. "It's a paradox. On one side we experience time and space as reliable and predictable entities, where time and space present us with a deceptive form of reality. But the inner life of time and space is gloomy, labyrinthine and perilous."

That labyrinthine gloom is best expressed in the artist's early landscape sketches, executed in the late 1980s, shortly after Rondinone's boyfriend, a young chemistry student called Manfred Weisner, succumbed to AIDS. The pair had both been studying in Vienna, and it was Weisner's passing that shifted Rondinone's outlook. "Manfred's death was a turning point in my life, when I decided to make the most of what time remained for me," the artist says. "In the middle of the AIDS crisis at the end of 1988, I turned away from grief and found a spiritual roadmap for solace, regeneration and inspiration in nature. In nature, you enter a space where the sacred and profane, the mystical and the mundane, vibrate against one another. This new base found in nature would inform my work for the next thirty-three years."

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rach 🐚 @anewerarealchairs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Only the Good Die Young” • on Billie Joel’s 5th studio album The Stranger, released on September 22, 1977 Uploaded to YouTube on March 26, 2013.

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Billy Joel - Only the Good Die Young (Official Audio)

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rach 🐚 @anewerarealchairs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Gaëtan Dugas 2/2/52-3/30/84 Gaëtan “was a Canadian flight attendant widely claimed to be "patient zero" for the North American AIDS epidemic, as popularized notably by Randy Shilts's 1987 book And the Band Played On. The claim has been refuted through subsequent scientific scrutiny.”