Ugo Rondinone’s the alphabet of my mothers and fathers, 2022, consists of twenty-six sets of gilded farm tools, one per letter of the alphabet. Hand-made by their users for countless generations, these were the implements of traditional farming and food preparation. By applying them with gold leaf and mounting them on white squares, Rondinone transforms the tools into regal hieroglyphs of ingenuity and skill.
Tags: Esther Schipper