Ugo Rondinone Creates Hamptons Garden Memorial for Late Husband John Giorno

Key facts

• Ugo Rondinone created a garden memorial for his late husband John Giorno on his five-acre Long Island property in Mattituck.
• The memorial includes three cloud sculptures, an aluminum-cast tree sculpture, and a 20-foot-high concrete fountain.
• Rondinone used a technique of grinding moss and mixing it with yogurt under netting to create a moss garden.
• He discovered the property over a decade ago through his late gallerist Barbara Gladstone's real estate agent.
• His Seven Magic Mountains installation near Las Vegas became a land-art landmark in 2016.
• At his Long Island studio, he developed sunset paintings, a sailboat series, and readymade sculptures from vintage farm tools.
• In September, he will unveil an exhibition of 15 resin 'waterfalls' with crushed blue gemstones at Gladstone Gallery in New York.
• A concurrent presentation of glass works will be held at Gladstone Gallery's Brussels outpost.
• The New York show has been two years in the making, with pieces starting as small clay lines around wire.
• Rondinone views natural elements as metaphors for the human condition, addressing longing, solitude, awe, fear, and transcendence.