A special holiday reading of John Giorno by Russell Tovey from New Museum on Vimeo.
UGO RONDINONE, the sun, 2020. Cast Bronze, hand gilded, gold string 13 x 13 ¾ x 3 1/8 in. (33 x 35 x 8 cm.) Initialed and numbered, with certificate. Edition of 20, with 10 APs. Produced by Carolina Nitsch for the New Museum, New York
To celebrate this stunning Limited Edition, the noted actor and podcast host Russell Tovey contributes a reading of Welcoming the Flowers by John Giorno, Ugo Rondinone's longtime partner who passed away in October 2019. The poem reflects on the cycle of life and acts a companion piece to ”the sun."
Russell Tovey portrait by Lee Malone.