Ugo Rondinone red blue yellow pink black brown mountain, 2025

Ugo Rondinone works from a large, converted church in Harlem, New York (formerly the Mount Moriah Baptist Church), which serves as both his studio and living space. This new body of work—colloquially referred to as “Harlem Mountains,” in part due to the location in which the artist creates them—derives from his ongoing series of vertically stacked, painted stones whose vivid surfaces merge references to geological formations with abstract composition.

The works originate from his large-scale land art project Seven Magic Mountains (2016) in the Nevada desert and have since evolved into both outdoor and indoor formats. The new sculptures are composed of smaller granite stones arranged in a more totemic form. Rondinone has also expanded his palette beyond Day-Glo hues to include deeper, richer, and more earthen tones, as well as vivid new colors such as turquoise, aubergine, and green.

The sculpture weighs 59 kg (130 lbs)
The pedestal weighs 30 kg (66 lbs)