Anish Kapoor is exhibiting monumental objects in Hyde Park

London - Visitors to the Kensington Gardens in London’s Hyde Park can enjoy not only nature but also the monumental sculptures of Anish Kapoor in the heart of the British metropolis starting today. One of the most well-known contemporary artists has opened an exhibition titled Turning the World Upside Down.
His gleaming steel objects reflect trees, the sky, water, animals, and passersby, or turn them upside down in optical illusion. The largest piece is Sky Mirror, a ten-meter diameter mirror, which the fifty-six-year-old Kapoor installed by the water reservoir where a monumental sculpture by his famous predecessor Henry Moore used to stand, which had to be removed twenty years ago for restoration.
"This is my oldest exhibited piece here. It is from 2007, the others are relatively new," Kapoor told ČTK. "All of them originate from the same intention - they focus on the sky and the earth. They concentrate on reflection, it is about reflection and your physical interaction."
Just a year ago, Kapoor had a retrospective in London at the Royal Academy of Arts. It drew around 280,000 visitors and became the most successful exhibition by a living artist in the history of the academy.
"However, these objects were created to be outdoors and have a completely different context. I also like that the park is a democratic place. People come to the park to walk their dogs and for many other things. And it’s nice that they encounter art; they don’t come here for art, but they meet it,” said Kapoor.
He was born in Mumbai, India. He has lived in London since the 1970s. Although he has exhibited his outdoor objects all over the world, this is his debut in London.
For example, Sky Mirror was installed at Rockefeller Center in New York. In addition, he exhibits a smaller red mirror located in a pond near Kensington Palace, where Princess Diana lived. Another piece is Spire and a curved steel wall called C-Curve, which reflects the viewer upside down.
The exhibition, organized by the well-known London gallery Serpentine, will last until March 13 of next year. However, a year later, Kapoor's largest piece to date will rise in London - a 115-meter tall tower called Orbit, which will be a permanent part of the Olympic Park.

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