Sky Mirror

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Short description: Series of sculptures by Anish Kapoor


Sky Mirror, this one commissioned in 2015, on a temporary exhibition in 2020 at Wat Arun, Bangkok

Sky Mirror is a public sculpture by artist Anish Kapoor.[1] Commissioned by the Nottingham Playhouse, it is installed outside the theatre in Wellington Circus, Nottingham, England. Sky Mirror is a 6-metre-wide (20 ft)-wide concave dish of polished stainless steel weighing 10 tonnes (9.8 long tons) and angled up towards the sky. Its surface reflects the ever-changing environment.

The original Sky Mirror

It took six years from the initial idea for a major new piece of public art to the unveiling of Sky Mirror on 27 April 2001, and cost £900,000.[1] At the time, it was the most expensive piece of civic art funded by the National Lottery.[citation needed] It was manufactured in Finland .

In autumn 2007 the Nottingham Playhouse Sky Mirror was voted Pride of Place in a poll to find Nottingham's favourite landmark.[citation needed] More recently,[when?] Sky Mirror has been installed in Brighton's Pavilion Gardens for the Brighton Festival.

From 28 September 2010, Sky Mirror and three other Kapoor sculptures were exhibited in Kensington Gardens, London.[2] The open-air exhibition was titled Turning the World Upside Down and it ran until 13 March 2011. It was accessible from 6 a.m. until dusk.[3] Kapoor said that Kensington Gardens was "the best site in London for a piece of art, probably in the world". The location of Sky Mirror was previously occupied by a sculpture by Henry Moore – a work that was donated by the artist, but had been removed for conservation in 1996.[4] Kapoor's sculptures are guarded round-the-clock at a cost estimated to be £120,000 paid for by the Royal Parks Agency.[5][needs update?]

Sky Mirror's permanent installation is at Dallas Cowboys Art Collection at AT&T Stadium.[6]

Versions of Sky Mirror

From 20 September to 27 October 2006, a larger version of Sky Mirror was installed at Rockefeller Center in New York City. It had a 35 foot (11 m) diameter, stood three stories tall, and weighed 23 long tons (23 t).[7] The convex side faced Fifth Avenue, the concave side the Rockefeller Center courtyard.

Versions of Sky Mirror also exist in the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia , in front of the Casino de Monte-Carlo in Monaco, in the Serralves Museum in Porto, Portugal and in the De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art in Tilburg, the Netherlands.[citation needed]

Gallery

  • Sky Mirror (original), Nottingham

  • Sky Mirror (original), Kensington Gardens, London

  • Sky Mirror (version), New York, as seen from Rockefeller Center

  • Sky Mirror (version), Serralves, Porto, Portugal

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Young, Emma. "Barbecue wings". New Scientist. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn495-barbecue-wings/. Retrieved 28 October 2018. 
  2. ↑ "Exhibition of Anish Kapoor's sculptures opens in Kensington Gardens". Demotix. http://www.demotix.com/news/457867/exhibition-anish-kapoor-sculptures-opens-kensington-gardens. Retrieved 28 October 2010. 
  3. ↑ "Anish Kapoor Turning the World Upside Down". Demotix. http://www.demotix.com/news/473544/anish-kapoor-turning-world-upside-down. 
  4. ↑ Gayford, Martin (28 September 2010). "It's the location of Anish Kapoor's 'Sky Mirror' that counts". The Daily Telegraph (London). https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/8030914/Its-the-location-of-Anish-Kapoors-Sky-Mirror-that-counts.html. 
  5. ↑ Ross Lydall (7 October 2010). "Reflecting badly: Public pays for guards on Anish Kapoor mirrors". London Evening Standard. Archived from the original on 23 April 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110423220844/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23885543-reflecting-badly-public-pays-for-guards-on-anish-kapoor-mirrors.do. 
  6. ↑ Granberry, Michael (27 September 2013). "Dallas Cowboys art collection scores a touchdown with Anish Kapoor". The Dallas Morning News. A. H. Belo Corporation (James M. Moroney III). http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/columnists/michael-granberry/20130927-art-notes-dallas-cowboys-art-collection-scores-a-touchdown-with-anish-kapoor.ece. 
  7. ↑ Vogel, Carol (3 October 2013). "Warhol Death and Disaster Work to Be Sold by Sotheby's". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/04/arts/design/warhol-death-and-disaster-work-to-be-sold-by-sothebys.html. 

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