Ugo Rondinone’s Miami Mountain is a 42-foot-tall stack of five huge boulders painted in bright fluorescent colors. It’s part of his colorful “mountain” series and the first one a museum has permanently collected. The Bass in Miami Beach bought it and installed it in Collins Park (21st Street and Collins Avenue). It follows his famous 2016 Seven Magic Mountains near Las Vegas—seven neon-painted boulder towers in the desert. Miami Mountain's shape is inspired by natural “hoodoo” rock pillars in the American West and the ancient human habit of stacking stones (cairns) to mark a place or moment. Rondinone uses these ancient, still rocks to talk about time, nature, and stillness. With its wild colors and simple form, the piece feels both romantic and minimal, tying into the artist’s longtime interest in suns, moons, air, and the cosmos.
Ugo Rondinone: Miami Mountain / The Bass Museum of Art. Miami Beach, November 26, 2025.
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