Ugo Rondinone's 'Miami Mountains' installed at Bass Museum

Ugo Rondinone's 'Miami Mountains' will be installed at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach starting October 27, 2016. The project consists of five large-scale sculptures made of Nevada limestone, each painted a different fluorescent color and stacked vertically, reminiscent of his 'Seven Magic Mountains' in the Nevada desert. This is the first time a work from the 'Mountains' series has been permanently acquired by a museum. The installation will be located on Collins Avenue in front of the museum. Meanwhile, the Bass Museum, founded in 1964 by the Bass couple, is undergoing a multimillion-dollar expansion designed by Arata Isozaki with David Gauld as consultant. The project will add 1,000 square meters to the existing 1,500-square-meter space, including galleries, a café, and educational areas. The expansion, which began in 2013 with a $12 million budget (including $7.5 million from the city of Miami, state of Florida funds, and private donors), was originally scheduled to open in December 2016 but has been postponed to spring 2017. The museum became a nonprofit in 2009. Additionally, Sylvie Fleury will create a neon site-specific installation titled 'Eternity Now' on the museum's facade. Rondinone, a Swiss artist born in 1974, recently installed a large work at Place Vendôme in Paris for FIAC, and previously exhibited in Rome at Macro Testaccio and the Mercati di Traiano, curated by Ludovico Pratesi.