Public art & sculpture · London
Rock on Top of Another Rock
Rock on Top of Another Rock in England London, United Kingdom.
PAUL FARMER — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
- Free entry
- Dog-friendly
About
Rock on Top of Another Rock is a public sculpture in England London, United Kingdom. Britain's public art ranges from Henry Moore reclining figures and Anthony Gormley installations to the Angel of the North and the surviving statues of empire.
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From the Wikipedia article
Rock on Top of Another Rock is a sculpture by the artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss which was exhibited outside the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens in 2013. It consists of one large rock balanced on top of another large rock. An earlier incarnation of the work was a similar sculpture on the plateau of Valdresflya which was one of the artworks installed on each of Norway's eighteen scenic highways.
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Background
Architecture
The first incarnation of the work was constructed for the Norwegian Public Roads Administration which commissioned artworks for its 18 tourist routes. The artists used a picture of a toy Playmobil crane lifting a large rock to illustrate their proposal, which was to place one large rock on top of another. This would be in the style of a wayfarer's cairn—a marker to show that someone had passed this way—but on a grand, monumental scale. In that case, the lower rock was already in place, and a real crane was used to place another rock on top of it. The two granite boulders used for the Serpentine work were natural rocks deposited by glacial action in North Wales. They weighed almost 30 tons…
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- Coordinates
- 51.5043, -0.1754
- District
- Westminster
- Parish
- Westminster, unparished area
- Postcode
- W2 3XA
- Parliamentary constituency
- Kensington and Bayswater
- Opening
- Tu-Su,PH 10:00-18:00; Mo off
- Official site
- www.serpentinegalleries.org
Sources
- wikidata: Q18161482 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Rock on Top of Another Rock (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Rock on Top of Another Rock?
- Rock on Top of Another Rock is in London, United Kingdom (postcode W2 3XA), in the parish of Westminster, unparished area.
- Is Rock on Top of Another Rock free to visit?
- Yes, Rock on Top of Another Rock is free to enter.
- How do I get to Rock on Top of Another Rock?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode W2 3XA. It sits within the Kensington and Bayswater parliamentary constituency.