in beauty bright
August 29 — October 18, 2025
Seoul
Gladstone Gallery is pleased to present in beauty bright, its first exhibition by Ugo Rondinone in Seoul. On view from August 29 to October 18, the show features thirteen new landscapes in various sizes. Each work is a watercolor on canvas in its own arrangement of the same five pastel shades—pink, blue, yellow, purple, and green. Otherwise, the compositions are identical, using only four lines to depict a mountain lake.
The exhibition’s title comes from William Blake’s lullaby A Cradle Song from his 1789 collection Songs of Innocence. It opens:
Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,
Dreaming in the joys of night;
Sleep, sleep; in thy sleep
Little sorrows sit and weep…

Installation