Liverpool Mountain- Ugo Rondinone

Recently, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Tate Liverpool and the 20th anniversary of the Liverpool Biennial a large project has been installed outside the entrance of the Tate Liverpool amongst the iconic Royal Albert Dock.
Ugo Rondinone is a swedish born artist developed this impressive gravity defying piece of artwork for the residents of the United Kingdom and all tourists to view as they take a stroll along the iconic Liverpool Docks. This is the first of its kind to take place in the United Kingdom as well as amongst the whole of Europe as Rondinone's art has never been exhibited here before.

This piece is a 10 meter tall sculpture named the 'Liverpool Mountain', this is part of Ugo's series of sculptures simply called 'Mountain series', other sculptures similar to this specific one are found on show around America in regions Miami and Las Vegas. This is an extremely large contemporary art piece made up of five bright, florescent rocks, all different in shape and size, balanced on top of one another as a means to give the effect of defying gravity. There is a hidden meaning behind these stacked rocks. Ugo Rondinone was influenced by the theme and artistic mindset of meditative rock balancing. There is almost a levitating effect to this piece as you see these enormous rocks unconventionally balancing on top of each other making the whole sculpture seem quite unusual. I feel this sculpture is an astonishing piece of work which contributes to a new scenery amongst the Liverpool Docks. Naturally the Royal Albert Dock is pretty dark and misty, by using a new bright vertically structured sculpture which rockets up and merges in with the plain buildings amongst the docks. I think this is a particularly clever placement of bright contemporary art put in place by the Liverpool Council along with the help of the Liverpool Biennial and The Tate