Publisher's Synopsis
This catalog documents the iteration of Ugo Rondinone's (born 1964) Vocabulary of Solitude at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in the summer of 2017. It comprised an installation of 45 clowns, exuberant rainbow paintings, pairs of clown shoes and 1998, a 62-part cycle of ink-on-paper works evoking the pain of desire and attachment.