DURANGO – OGNARUD (2010)

Bizkaia, Spain and Abu Dabhi, Unites Arab Emirates

DURANGO – OGNARUD (2010) Bizkaia, Spain and Abu Dabhi, Unites Arab Emirates, Juanjo Novella

OGNARUD is a sculpture in steel painted white installed in Durango (Bizkaia, Basque Country). Serves as a “humanizing 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 a convection international public art, the name of this sculpture is DURANGO, as the city that inspired it. OGNARUD means DURANGO upside down. Is a set of meanings between the two cities 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 Simposium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: It is a natural element, a tree leaf that has been inscribed in a rectangle and has been curved in a spiral. It was created to be placed on Corniche walkway. A copy of the sculpture, but painted steel and turned upside down was placed in Durango, Basque Country.

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

DURANGO – Abu Dhabi 2010