Art Production Fund & Nevada Museum of Art: Seven Magic Mountains – Ivanpah Valley, NV

 

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Renowned Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone’s colorful large-scale, public artwork Seven Magic Mountains is an exhibition located in the desert outside of Las Vegas, Nevada, featuring seven, 30 to 35-feet high dayglow totems comprised of painted, locally-sourced boulders.

 

Visible across the desert landscape along Interstate 15, Seven Magic Mountains offers a creative critique of the simulacra of destinations like Las Vegas. According to Rondinone, the location is physically and symbolically mid-way between the natural and the artificial: the natural is expressed by the mountain ranges, desert, and Jean Dry Lake backdrop, and the artificial is expressed by the highway and the constant flow of traffic between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.  The installation site is a short distance from the Jean Dry Lake where Michael Heizer and Jean Tinquely created legendary land art works in the 1960s.

 

Michele C. Quinn, served on the Las Vegas Advisory Committee for this project

 

Seven Magic Mountains by Ugo Rondinone is produced by Art Production Fund, New York, and Nevada Museum of Art, Reno.

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