I solely lately realized about this public artwork set up known as “Seven Magic Mountains,” which is described on the mission’s web site as a “giant scale desert paintings” outdoors of Las Vegas, Nevada. The paintings was created by Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone and produced by the Nevada Museum of Artwork and Artwork Manufacturing Fund. The exhibition, which consists of seven thirty-foot-plus-tall towers made up of huge boulders which are painted in vivid colours, opened in Might, 2016, with the intention of a two-year run. The exhibit remains to be going robust, nevertheless, and presently is slated to shut Might 31, 2027—so you continue to have a while to see it!
The Seven Magic Mountains web site describes the position of the paintings:
Seven Magic Mountains is located inside the Ivanpah Valley adjoining to Sheep Mountain and the McCullough, Chook Spring, and Goodsprings ranges of mountains. A inventive expression of human presence within the desert, Seven Magic Mountains punctuates the Mojave with a poetic burst of kind and colour.
The Nevada Museum of Artwork web site additional describes the work:
The set up, comprised of seven particular person towering sculptures, is located on the far southern finish of Las Vegas Boulevard alongside Interstate 15, roughly a half hour from downtown Las Vegas. Positioned inside the Ivanpah Valley and surrounded by mountains, the piece shall be on view for 2 years starting Might 11, 2016.
Mediating between geological formations and summary compositions, Rondinone’s Seven Magic Mountains consists of locally-sourced limestone boulders stacked vertically in teams ranging between three and 6. Every stone boasts a special fluorescent colour; every particular person totem stands between thirty and thirty-five toes excessive.
The paintings extends Rondinone’s long-running curiosity in pure phenomena and their reformulation in artwork. The titles and types of his work and sculptures have continuously evoked primordial phenomena corresponding to air, moons, the solar, and the cosmos. Referring concurrently to the pure world, romanticism, and existentialism, Seven Magic Mountains encapsulates a kind of psychological trinity that has underpinned the artist’s work for greater than twenty years. In a brand new iteration of themes and supplies, Seven Magic Mountains creates a way of romantic minimalism.
“Seven Magic Mountains elicits continuities and solidarities between human and nature, synthetic and pure, then and now,” states Rondinone.
I am certain they don’t seem to be everybody’s cup of tea, however I personally love this piece – I am going to positively cease and see it in individual the subsequent time I am driving to Vegas!