Founded in , The Donum Collection is one of the world's largest accessible private sculpture collections. More than 50 monumental works, including open-air sculptures, are placed on The Donum Estate, with over a third being site-specific commissions. Throughout our acre estate, each piece plays with scale, nature, and imagination. This evolving collection brings together a global community of artists, including works from leading practitioners from 18 nations, across six continents.
Donum brings to life a delicate balance between wine, land and art that has made it an international destination. Inspired by the history of circular calendars, the conical canopy is centered on a northern-oriented oculus and glazed with colored, laminated glass panels depicting yearly averages of the four meteorological parameters at the Estate β solar radiance, wind intensity, temperature, and humidity.
The glass panels consist of 24 colors in variations of translucent and transparent hues, which resonate with the colors of the local environment in the Sonoma Valley. Her pose is a reconsideration of statues, commonly seen preserved in a triumphant stance. Reaching Out rejects that grandeur and reconsiders those we've been taught to hold greater value within the nation β the sculpture presents a different proposition of conquering space. The US is such an essential arena for debate around this subject; it is an opportunity to expand the dialogue.
For it to be placed on Donum and join such a range of global practitioners is an honor. All Collectors Collections Galleries Insiders.
The Donum Collection One of the world's largest accessible private sculpture collections. Considered more closely, the two figures reveal themselves to have the same face. They are, in fact, one and the same. The work creates an optical illusion: from the outside, viewers have no idea what the structure is, and its elements shift with the light. From the inside, the grid forms both a pathway and a prison, as viewers look out at the world through the steel bars.
