Liverpool Mountain was commissioned by Liverpool Biennial & Tate Liverpool as part of the Liverpool 2018 programme with support from Royal Albert Dock Liverpool.
This monumental work marks the 10th anniversary of Liverpool European Capital of Culture, the 20th anniversary of Liverpool Biennial and the 30th anniversary o Tate Liverpool.
Liverpool Mountain is Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone’s first public artwork in the UK. The sculpture, which seems to defy gravity, draws on an ancient global tradition shared by many cultures of stacking rocks in a totemic formation, inspired by naturally occurring hoodoos - spires or pyramids of rock - Rondinone’s large-scale public sculptures are in the land art tradition of making structures in the landscape using natural materials.
The 10-meter high Liverpool Mountain, poised between the natural and the artificial, the geological and the abstract, is part of Ugo Rondinone’s larger series of Magic Mountains outdoor sculptures. Earlier iterations of the project can be found in Miami and Las Vegas in the United States of America.
The capture of the two men working on the floor was intentional, and no they did not fall off it!
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kit used: Sony RX 100 III