该雕塑是用青石凿成的。五块石头相互叠放以形成人体的基本形状 — 腿、腰、躯干和头部。石头的粗糙边缘是采石场出品的结果,未经修饰。
《抛光的》作品是乌戈·罗迪纳于2013年发起的“人性”作品的一部分:九件纪念性雕塑作为公共艺术基金项目的一部分,安装在纽约洛克菲勒广场上。在进一步的发展中,艺术家创造了具有相同图案的小型版本,将这件作品立于人类祖先的雕塑传统之中,其中包括旧石器时代的维纳斯雕像、基克拉迪大理石雕像、巨石阵或是加拿大因纽特人建造的因努伊特石堆。
The sculpture is made of hewn bluestone. Five blocks have been stacked atop one another to form the basic shape of a human body—legs, waist, torso, and head. The stones, whose rough edges result of the quarry work, have not been modified.
the polished is part of body of work initiated by Ugo Rondinone in 2013 with Human Nature: nine monumental sculptures installed on the Rockefeller Plaza in New York, as part of the Public Art Fund project. In a further development, the artist created smaller iterations of the same motif, inscribing this body of work in an ancestral sculptural tradition that includes Palaeolithic Venus representations, Cycladic marble figurines, Stonehenge, or the Inukshuk stone cairns built by the Inuit in Canada.