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Rocks Fail to Mark the Start of Spring
Thursday 04 April, 2013
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Rock on top of another rock installation in Hyde Park

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They looked under the rocks, between the rocks, and even stood back and just looked, but on a bitterly cold Tuesday afternoon in April the rocks were there but (unlike the promo catalogue image) no-one could find any sign of spring.

Our images of the recently installed Fishli/Weiss’s “Rock on Top of Another Rock” were taken outside of the Serpentine Gallery in London’s Hyde Park, on the afternoon prior to Peter Fishli’s humorous and fascinating history of stones and rock in art. (April 2nd 2013)

The monumental design comprises two rounded glacial boulders placed unsupported one on top of another. Whilst superficially similar to an earlier work at Valdersflya in Norway, it contrasts markedly with its urban parkland setting and public accessibility. The boulders estimated to weigh around 50 tonnes each comprise granite (sic) materials. The lower boulder appears similar to the blue stone seen today in the Trefor Quarry on the Lleyn peninsula, probably having been picked up and transported to its source location near the foot of Snowdonia during the last ice age.

The piece provides far more than an interpretation of standing stones, its macro form provides windows framing the changing seasons. In detail, whilst the stones appear smooth and virtually polished, gashed glacial striations on the upper stone bear witness to formidable forces of nature, contradicting the precise weathering of pyrite on the lower stone's south west face displaying perfectly chiselled cubic moulds.

The installation will remain in Hyde Park until March 2014 when it will be relocated to Qatar.

Whilst Specialist Aggregates were involved in a sourcing appraisal early in 2012 regrettably they didn’t supply these specific rocks.

Click the link below to view our selection of boulders for landscape and traffic management projects.

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For more information, please visit this related link:  Feature Boulders.



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