Pop Land Art Vibrations

Ugo Rondinone: Seven Magic Mountains;
Kim Shui canary tweed jacket, Elena Votsi line earrings with emeralds for Gemfields x Muse Resort 2017
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Kim Shui canary tweed jacket, Kim Shui twill skirt with sequins, Carolin Holzhuber conjoined illusion sole shoe
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Francesca Capper Season Five sculpted dress, Marios tall denim boots
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Francesca Capper Season Five sculpted dress, Elena Votsi emerald cyclos ring & ruby cyclos ring for Gemfields x Muse Resort 2017, Yossi Harari ruby chevron earrings for Gemfields x Muse Resort 2017
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Francesca Capper Season Five molded jumpsuit
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Francesca Capper Season Five molded jumpsuit, Yossi Harari ruby cascade necklace for Gemfields x Muse Resort 2017, Savannah Stranger Sugarloaf equator earrings for Gemfields x Muse Resort 2017
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Across a field of pure desert expanse, a cosmic unity of elements collide to create Ugo Rondinone’s Pop Land Art work of another dimension. An otherworldly assemblage of time, place and experience, Seven Magic Mountains rise symbolic of the power in art to evoke a heightened sense of endless, boundless, oceanic awareness. Positioned on the fringe of glittering excess, due south of the Las Vegas strip, seven magnificent totems composed of locally-sourced limestone in colors that burst into psychedelia await. The pieces teeter a tight rope of harsh contrasts amplifying the depth of interactions between humans and nature and extending experiential art into the realm of phenomena. An unprecedented piece of contemporary land art contextualized across the historical significance of Nevada’s land art legacy, Seven Magic Mountains encapsulates the mental trinity of references to the natural world, romanticism and existentialism that have underpinned Rondinone’s work throughout time.  The surreal rock formations, reminiscent of naturally occurring hoodoos, stack mystical layers of meaning eliciting individual ideas to mark ones passage through. A different sense of reality reawakened me to the heart of my intention, to create a meaningful world of fantasy and escapism, a transportive space of rich inner and outer discovery, a post-modern visual language to provoke new ways of thinking. I return to Robert Venturi’s and Denise Scott Brown’s seminal book published in 1972, Learning from Las Vegas a pivotal piece which began to break down the accepted understanding of exclusivity in architecture and celebrate its place in the vibrancy of popular culture, I sense a liberating new wave.

 

Ugo Rondinone: Seven Magic Mountains, Las Vegas, Nevada;
Seven Magic Mountains is a two-year public art installation produced by Art Production Fund, New York and Nevada Museum of Art, Reno.
The exhibition opened May 11, 2016. Plan your visit.

 

Kim Shui canary tweed jacket, Kim Shui twill skirt with sequins, Elena Votsi line earrings with emeralds for Gemfields x Muse Resort 2017, Carolin Holzhuber conjoined illusion sole shoe. Beauty Look: For acid hued eyes and earlobes lay into Make Up For Ever Fluo Night in Fuchsia & Yellow.

 

Francesca Capper Season Five sculpted dress, Elena Votsi emerald cyclos ring & ruby cyclos ring for Gemfields x Muse Resort 2017, Yossi Harari ruby chevron earrings for Gemfields x Muse Resort 2017,  Marios tall denim boots. Beauty Look: A dusting of high intensity shine with Make Up For Ever star powder.

 

Francesca Capper Season Five molded jumpsuit, Yossi Harari ruby cascade necklace for Gemfields x Muse Resort 2017, Savannah Stranger Sugarloaf equator earrings for Gemfields x Muse Resort 2017. Beauty Look: Play on color block with a punchy two tone lip using L’Oréal colour riche la lacque lip pen in Lacquerized & L’Oréal colour riche lipcolour in Sea Fleur.

 

Makeup by Samantha Dametta, Hair by Cosma De Marinis, Photographs by Tylor Hóu

 

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