Ugo Rondinone’s most interesting artworks
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Born in Switzerland in 1964, Ugo Rondinone is a mixed-media artist based in New York. He is best known for his Seven Magic Mountains, a desert art installation found in Nevada. It features seven colorfully painted stone totems stacked more than a dizzying 30 feet high.
With his large-scale drawings, mind-altering paintings, mesmerizing sculptures, and enormous land art installations, Rondinone explores the powerful connection between opposing forces, be they depression and euphoria, artificial and natural, or day and night.
His work has been part of major exhibitions at The Bass, the Art Institute of Chicago, and The Contemporary Austin.
