Nature Doesn’t Know About Us, curated by Ugo Rondinone for Sculpture Milwaukee celebrates the disparate elements of the earth, while exploring the human connection to nature. The exhibition transformed Milwaukee’s public landscape with works by 17 artists who combine skeptical clarity and at times humor-tinged desire to locate the intersection of spiritual and physical presence in our daily life. This publication continues this expedition of the in-between to memorialize this exhibition and its search for meaning in a world existing alongside ours.
Artists:
Agnes Denes
John Giorno
Tyree Guyton
David Hammons
Maren Hassinger
Geoffrey Hendricks
Rashid Johnson
Joan Jonas
Maya Lin
Sarah Lucas
Arthur Simms
Ned Smyth
Pat Steir
Diana Thater
Oscar Tuazon
Meg Webster
Lois Weinberger
Francisco Ramirez Barrera
Maeve O'Regan
Publication:
Ugo Rondinone, Nature Doesn't Know About Us
Photography: James Prinz
Sculpture Milwaukee, June 2022 - October 2023
Published by Sculpture Milwaukee Inc.
Co-published by Ugo Rondinone
Edited by John Riepenhoff
Design by Ugo Rondinone, Francisco Ramirez Barrera, Maeve O'Regan
Photography: James Prinz
Additional images courtesy of the Milwaukee Art Museum and Brian Pfister
Printed by Print Alliance HAV Produktions GmbH
Printed on Munken Print White 15, 150g/m2
Print run 1000, printed in Austria
Foreword:
Nature Doesn't Know About Us celebrates the disparate elements of the earth, while exploring the human connection to nature. The exhibition brings together the works of seventeen artists who combine skeptical clarity and at times humor-tinged desire to locate the intersection of spiritual and physical presence in our daily life. The natural world serves as a doorway into a highly rarefied metaphysical realm where the sea of consciousness surges against the tangible world. A world where all is in flux as distinctions between self and soul, body and spirit, past and present, mortification and bliss, confinement and escape all blur and waver.
There is a world alongside ours - boundless, unhurried, interconnected, resourceful, and lavishly inventive, and we are only temporarily in it.
-Ugo Rondinone
https://www.sculpturemilwaukee.com/nature-doesnt-know-about-us