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The rainbow also includes bronze sculptures of candles that restate the larger theme of suspended time. The polychrome figures — spread across the floor of the main gallery — have their origins in his nude series ofa group of fourteen casts of seated or crouching dancers, each assembled from smaller wax sections in the original group, clear wax was mixed with earth sourced from each of the seven continents.

Naked apart from head coverings, the dancers are captured in moments of repose, their eyes closed. The nude rainbow series marks an evolution of the original sculptures. While the earlier nudes were bound to the earth in their make-up, the prismatic coloration of the rainbow figures betokens a state of transfiguration — the physical body dissolving into light.

At the same time, each figure signifies interiority, conveying a distinct psychological presence. The second gallery contains a constellation of sculptures of candles, arrayed across the floor in 52nd style of votive offerings. Like the dancers each captured at the height of youth and physical prowessthese are markers of time: half-metamorphosed objects, rendered statuesque and changeless.

Giving emblematic expression to the theme of time, a stained-glass clock illuminates the gallery from one end. It has been liberated of hands, as though time had dispersed or condensed into a singularity. Ugo Rondinone was born in in Brunnen, Switzerland. Basket 0.

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