Tall Tree & the Eye by by Anish Kapoor CBE RA
Tall Tree & the Eye, 2009 by Anish Kapoor CBE RA This dazzling sculpture is 14 metres tall and is made up of stainless steel and carbon steel. The eighty spheres spiral around three axes. Multiple images are reflected on its glassy surfacese each sphere reflecting itself, its neighbours and all the components that make up the tower. We see our own repeated reflection and that of the architecture that surrounds us. The angle of the images changes as our gaze moves up the sculpture. Anish Kapoor was born on 12 March 1954 in Bombay (Mumbai) but has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s where he moved to study art, first at the Hornsey College of Art and later at the Chelsea School of Art and Design. He gained international acclaim with solo exhibits at venues such as the Tate Gallery and Hayward Gallery in London, Kunsthalle Basel, Haus der Kunst Munich, Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin, Reina Sofia in Madrid, MAK Vienna, and the ICA Boston. He represented Britain in the XLIV Venice Biennale in 1990, when he was awarded the Premio Duemila Prize. In 1991 he received the Turner Prize. Notable public sculptures include Cloud Gate, Millennium Park, Chicago, and Sky Mirror at the Rockefeller Center, New York.
Size: 3402px × 5120px
Location: Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
Photo credit: © Andy J Hollingbery / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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