This sculpture of mountains can be found in Simcoe Park on Front Street West in downtown Toronto. When you first look at the sculpture you might not instantly think "mountain" because this sculpture is not huge and expansive and there are trees by this sculpture which dwarf it. When I first saw it I didn't immediately think it was a mountain, I thought it was a sculpture of sharp angles and shapes. At first glance I also thought the sculpture was made of fabric, not aluminium, because it appears to be draped and have an overall uniform appearance.
This is one of the featured pieces of art (#8) in The City of Toronto's Art Walk - Toronto's Outdoor Art Gallery.
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"untitled (mountain)
Anish Kapoor, 1995
untitled (mountain) is a water-jet cut aluminium sculpture created by internationally renowned British artist Anish Kapoor. He has intended the work to be open and rich with potential metaphoric and symbolic meanings, as an actual mountain might be.
One immediate reading, and consistent with much of this artist’s work, is an embedded “dialogue” between nature and human beings. Although the work resembles a natural geographic feature, it has been fabricated from synthetic materials, which were extracted from nature to begin with. While in earlier eras people may have looked upon
mountains as symbols of strength and spiritual inspiration, here the mountain is dwarfed by the human achievement of architecture. untitled (mountain) was not necessarly created to pose any specific question or to seek a finite resolution to any particular issue. It exists as a potent symbol for pondering notions that may be ephemeral, yet essential in coming to terms with the human condition and our place in the world."