ANISH KAPOOR – LEVIATHAN
2011-05-16Famed for his critically acclaimed Cloud Gate in Chicago and Sky Mirror in New York, Kapoor is the fourth artist to be invited by the Grand Palais to create the annual Monumenta exhibition in its vast, glass-roofed central nave.
Inside Leviathan, the viewer is invited to take part in a physical and mental experience, a sensory immersion in a translucent membrane designed to interact with the architecture of the building in which it is housed.
The red glow is created by daylight flooding from the nave’s glass roof and through the sculpture’s tent-like walls, and its intensity, as well as the temperature in the cavity, vary as clouds pass over the sun.
From the outside, however, Leviathan offers a completely different experience, a feeling of awe at the overwhelming scale of the bulbous, rubber-like sculpture, which stands 35 meters (yards) high and fills the entire 35,000 sq meters (376,700 sq ft) of the nave.
Exhibition runs through to June 23rd, 2011
The Grand Palais
Nave of the Grand Palais
Avenue Winston-Churchill
75008
Paris
France
