Video: Cloud Gate in downtown Chicago. Sculpture by Anish Kapoor
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
A few years ago, an amazing sculpture appeared in Chicago's Millennium Park: it looks like a huge bean, and in its mirror surface you can see a distorted reflection of city skyscrapers and clouds floating above them. This is "Cloud Gate", or "Cloud Gate", one of the most famous works of the Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor (Anish Kapoor).
The Cloud Gate is a frame covered with 168 sheets of stainless steel welded together and carefully polished. The structure weighs 99.8 tons and has the following dimensions: 10 meters high, 20 meters long and 13 meters wide. It was planned that the cost of this project would amount to $ 6 million, but in reality it took much more - $ 23 million.
According to the author, a drop of mercury inspired him to create such a sculpture. To present his work in Millennium Park, Kapoor entered a competition - and won it. Work on the construction of the sculpture began in 2004, and the official date of its opening is May 15, 2006.
In addition to its official name, the sculpture also received the nickname "The Bean" ("Bob") for its similarity to legumes. According to the author, while working on "Cloud Gates" he could not even imagine that his work would be called that way among the people. However, now that the sculpture is ready, such a course of events seems obvious. And Anish Kapoor is not at all opposed to the fact that his work has a nickname - after all, this indicates the popularity of sculpture among the population.
Anish Kapoor was born in 1954 in Bombay, but has been living and working in the UK since 1972. The author is a Turner Prize winner and a member of the New British Sculpture Group, and was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 2003. Kapoor's works are in many museums around the world, in particular at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Tate Modern in London, Fondazione Prada in Milan, at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, De Pont Foundation in Holland and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Japan …
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