Ilan Ilan, 2020
ILAN ILAN, 2020, is a public sculpture created for the Ilan Gal-on Plaza in front of the Sapir building in the diamond bourse area of Ramat Gan, Israel. The duplicity in the title is partly because we both; the reason of the work, and the creator of it, carry the name Ilan which means “young tree” in Hebrew.
The work is made of stainless steel and glass. It rises out of an ecological water pool in front of the glass high-rise building to a height of 3.70 m. (12’) Each of the two elements are 5m. (16’) wide.
The image resembles two wide canopied desert Acacia trees leaning toward and slightly touching one another. Some will see in the angular shape, color, and translucent quality, a reference to the cut diamonds dealt with in the backdropping building. In this urban setting, the connection between the natural beauty of desert trees, diamonds and the modern industrial solution of “curtain architecture” is the essence and aesthetic of the work.