Anish Kapoor Sky Mirror Rockefeller Center. It stretched new york and reflected it upside down. He is most famous for his public sculptures such as cloud gate (2004) in chicago and orbit (2012) in london.
We, new yorkers, had come undone after september 11 and had clutched each other, unable to do anything except weep and sit. Sky mirror measures 10 meters in diameter, 39 inches thick, and weighs a total of 30,000 pounds. My red homeland at the jewish museum and tolerance center, moscow.
Uk Sculptor Anish Kapoor Has Unveiled His Sky Mirror Work In New York.
Hirshhorn museum and sculpture garden, washington, d.c.; The sculpture has been shown in rockefeller center, new york city and kensington gardens, london. Sky mirror (rockefeller center), 2006 anish kapoor.
Sky Mirror Measures 10 Meters In Diameter, 39 Inches Thick, And Weighs A Total Of 30,000 Pounds.
Anish kapoor’s sky mirror, installed last fall on the fifth avenue side of rockefeller center’s promenade, had promised to be a striking presence. Both cloud gate and sky mirror reflected and transformed their surroundings and demonstrated kapoor’s ongoing investigation of material, form, and space. Notable public sculptures include cloud gate, millennium park, chicago, and sky mirror at the rockefeller center, new york.
Memory, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany 2008 Anish Kapoor, Gladstone Gallery, New York, Usa.
He also won the turner prize in 1991, an honorary doctorate. More artworks by anish kapoor. In the 1990s he began to explore the notion of the void.
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Kapoor's pieces are frequently simple, curved forms, usually monochromatic and brightly. Posted by cirrus minor @ 1:28 am 0 comments. The sculpture is called sky mirror, and it's essentially a large, convex piece of highly polished stainless steel, roughly in the shape of a contact lens.
Standing In That Alleyway Much Closer To The Sky Mirror.
Kapoor first came to public notice in the 1980s with his geometric and biomorphic pieces in stone, pigment, and plaster. Standing nearly three stories tall at the fifth avenue entrance to the channel gardens at rockefeller center, sky mirror offers a dazzling experience of light and architecture, presenting viewers with a vivid inversion of the skyline. Artists exhibitions news media locations shop follow newsletter search viewing room anish kapoor about works (84/90) exhibitions & news follow facebook instagram.
