Ugo Rondinone dreams and dramas, 2001

Ugo Rondinone's dreams and dramas consists of an impressive and colorful site-specific neon sculpture—that can either be installed free-standing on the roof of a building, or mounted on a facade—whose rainbow-striped letters spell out a poetic statement addressed to passers-by.

Rondinone has worked with the theme of rainbows for decades. Since 1997 and his first neon work, cry me a river, the artist has created 14 neon rainbow sculptures. As a phenomenon, the rainbow is familiar yet intangible; rarely seen, it is associated with luck and serendipity. The rainbow can also be seen as a metaphor of Rondinone’s work and mentality: poetic and ungraspable in its stylistic diversity.