Seven Magic Mountains

Seven Magic Mountains is a major outdoor sculpture installation in Nevada’s Ivanpah Valley by Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone, who set vividly painted stone towers against the open desert to explore the tension between nature and artifice. Built from thirty-three locally sourced boulders stacked into seven columns and coated in fluorescent paint, it opened in 2016 after a lengthy approval process on Bureau of Land Management land. Originally planned as a temporary work, it became one of the best-known artworks near Las Vegas, drawing hundreds of thousands of visitors annually, while weathering, vandalism concerns, and possible relocation have shaped its later history.

Goodsprings, Nevada · United States