In his Seven Magic Mountains, esteemed Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone has sprinkled some of Las Vegas’s stardust into the dramatic Nevada desert; 35ft-high stacks of locally-sourced boulders rendered in fantastical dayglow … totem poles for the EDM generation.
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Rising high above the desert landscape along Interstate 15, the uncompromisingly barren drive between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, the New York-based artist’s evocative works talk of the uneasy balance between the power of nature and the overtly artificial aesthetic of Sin City. Produced by Art Production Fund, New York, and Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Seven Magic Mountains is close to Jean Dry Lake; the site of legendary 1960s ‘earth-art’ installations by fellow Swiss Jean Tinguely and American Michael Heizer.
In a time where our interaction with nature is under constant scrutiny, when we push our interaction with earth to the limits, Rondinone’s work symbolizes our anxious relationship with the natural world — manifesting the awkward juxtaposition that is Las Vegas and daubing the arid Mojave with a psychedelic representation of the human footprint.
- Tags: Art, installation, Nature, Neveda
