Summer Moon

summer moon by Ugo Rondinone

"Ugo Rondinone's summer moon, 2011, belongs to a long-running series of sculptures of trees, From the mis-2000s, Rondinone embarked on a series of life-size sculptures of ancient olive trees in white-painted aluminium.

'Though a cast olive tree you can not only experience the lapse of real time, that is lived time, frozen in its given form, but through this transformation also a different calibrated temporality. Time can be experienced as a lived abstraction, where the shape is formed by the accumulation of time and wind force.'  
Ugo Rondinone, 2006"