Timeline

Rondinone’s past projects

Rondinone makes art across an array of media, ranging from two-dimensional paintings to wax sculptures, and installations on the scale of landscape. Well known for his 2013 installation of anthropomorphic stone sculptures in New York City’s Rockefeller Plaza, Ronindone extends his sculptural exploration of physical space beyond the traditional confines of gallery walls or even a public plaza through Seven Magic Mountains. Rondinone’s body of work is extensive. Here, we highlight a few of the highly acclaimed public artworks for which the artist is known.

Land Art Continuum

Occupying a space between the stillness of the Nevada desert and the constant flux of people traveling between Los Angeles and Las Vegas along Interstate 15, the totemic forms of Seven Magic Mountains recall stone cairns marking the way for travelers passing through unfamiliar landscapes. Nearby Jean Dry Lake, a place integral to the history of Land Art in the American West, creates a resonant context for Seven Magic Mountains because of artworks made there by artists Jean Tinguely (1962) and Michael Heizer (1968). Rondinone invites visitors to contemplate the desert space and its history of human intervention. “Seven Magic Mountains elicits continuities and solidarities between human nature, artificial and natural, then and now,” states Rondinone.

Public Art

Public art is redefining the identities of places around the world. Seven Magic Mountains strengthens Nevada’s identity as a place that celebrates and supports the work of interesting artists, and draws attention to Las Vegas as it evolves into a city also known for the arts. Significantly, Seven Magic Mountains has been encouraged and supported by regional public-private partnerships that yield important economic and cultural development opportunities for Las Vegas and Nevada.

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

Seven Magic Mountains
2016
Ugo Rondinone: Seven Magic Mountains, 2016 Learn more...
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Painting
April 2016
Painting boulders for Seven Magic Mountains. Learn more...
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Stacking
December 2015
Stacking boulders for Seven Magic Mountains. Learn more...
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Coring
December 2015
Coring boulders for Seven Magic Mountains before stacking. Learn more...
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Cutting
December 2015
Cutting boulders for Seven Magic Mountains installation. Learn more...
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Human Nature
2013
Human Nature, Rockefeller Plaza, New York, 2013. Organized by Public Art Fund. Learn more about the Human Nature exhibition. Learn more...
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We Are Poems
2011
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Primitive
2011
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Moonrise. East
2008
Moonrise. East, 2008, Basel; San Francisco Learn more...
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Hell, Yes!
2007-2010
Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone has spent the last twenty years working in a diverse range of mediums, including painting, drawing, ... Learn more...
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Sunrise, East
2006
Ugo Rondinone worked in the Studio House on the creation of twelve mask-like heads, which he modeled in clay over ... Learn more...
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Clockwork for Oracles
2005
An iteration of this work will be on view at Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, February 4 – July 9, ... Learn more...
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Dog Days Are Over
1996
7-channel video installation on 7 monitors (color, no sound), audio sensors Edition: 1/2 + 1 ap Dimensions variable Learn more...
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Sun Tunnels
1976
Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels, an installation in Northwest Utah, completed in 1976. Learn more...
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Spiral Jetty
1970
Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, 1970. Learn more...
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​Double Negative
1969-70
Double Negative (1969-70) is a work of land art by the artist Michael Heizer. It is located in the Moapa Valley on Mormon ... Learn more...
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Rift 1
1968
Michael Heizer created Rift 1 from the series Nine Nevada Depressions on the surface of Jean Dry Lake in 1968. Learn more...
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Ugo Rondinone Born
1964
Ugo Rondinone was born in 1964 to Italian parents in the resort town of Brunnen, Switzerland. “You Can Make Your ... Learn more...
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Study for an End of the World No. 2
1962
Jean Tinguely’s major desert performance installation Study for an End of the World No. 2 on Jean Dry Lake in ... Learn more...
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Sloan Canyon Petroglyphs
Middle to Late Archaic Period
Sloan Canyon contains a great many petroglyphs pecked and carved on the canyon walls. Sloan has been called the Sistine ... Learn more...
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