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Ugo Rondinone
/ Switzerland b.1964 /
cigarettesandwich
(still) 2003 / SD video transferred to DVD, colour, stereo, 64 minutes / Acc. 2004.108 / Purchased 2004
Ugo Rondinone
cigarettesandwich
2003
In
cigarettesandwich
, Ugo Rondinone evokes the boredom and
sadness that accompanies moments of everyday solitude.
The video loops a sequence from a Rainer Werner Fassbinder
film
Götter der Pest
(
Gods of the Plague
) 1970, depicting actor
Harry Baer walking along a brick wall, accompanied by the
hour-long ‘Sleepy song’ by English band the Tindersticks.
The monotonous, repetitive imagery and wistful, meandering
character of the music is intended to lull the viewer into an
all‑encompassing melancholy.