DURANGO – OGNARUD (2010)

Bizkaia, Spain and Abu Dabhi Unites Arab Emirates

OGNARUD is a sculpture in steel painted white installed in Durango (Bizkaia, Basque Country). It serves as a “humanising element” in an area of new construction that links to the new station designed by Zaha Hadid. An inverted replica was installed in Abu Dhabi in international public art convection. The name of this sculpture is DURANGO, to the city that inspired it. OGNARUD means DURANGO upside down. It is a set of meanings between the two towns looking in the mirror, Durango and Abu Dhabi – EUA.

Ognarud and Durango are twin sister pieces. One white, the other rusty, curved inversely as if seen in a mirror.

DURANGO (2010) inside ADISS Symposium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: It is a natural element. This tree leaf has been inscribed in a rectangle and curved in a spiral. It was created to be placed on the Corniche walkway. A copy of the sculpture, painted steel and turned upside down, was established in Durango, Basque Country.

OGNARUD (2010) Basque Country Painted steel: It is a natural element, a tree leaf inscribed in a rectangle and curved in a spiral.  It is the prominent landmark of a recently created park, open to the downtown.
A twin sculpture in rusty steel and curved turned upside down was placed in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

DURANGO – Abu Dhabi 2010