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Anish Kapoor turns the world upside down

The artist's mirrored sculptures reflect the beauty of London's Kensington Gardens
Anish Kapoor, C-Curve (2007)
Stainless steel 
220 x 770 x 300 cm
Anish Kapoor, C-Curve (2007)
Stainless steel 
220 x 770 x 300 cm


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Kensington Gardens, London, United Kingdom

royalparks.org.uk

From: 28 September 2010
Until: 13 March 2011

'Turning the World Upside Down'

Opening hours:
6am until dusk

kapoorinkensington.org.uk


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A display of reflective sculptures by Anish Kapoor can be seen from tomorrow in Kensington Gardens, London. The Serpentine Gallery, together with the Royal Parks have organised: Turning the World Upside Down, a display of four of Kapoor's major recent works, giant mirrored sculptures which simultaneously reflect and distort their surroundings.

The works explore the duality of natural shapes and abstract forms: Sky Mirror (2006) is a concave, 23 ton, 35-foot wide sculpture and can be seen near The Longwater in Kensington Gardens; C-Curve (2007) (pictured above) can be read as a physical means by which to experience something of the metaphysical, in a sort of re-enactment of reality.

Non-Object (Spire) (2008) and Sky Mirror, Red (2009) - magnificently on show in The Round Pond - complete the four sculptures, which are on display until March, and so will perfectly interact and alter with the changing seasons.

The works are best experienced as a series of encounters. Suddenly a stroll in the park is surprising and exciting.


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© 2010 Anish Kapoor
Courtesy of the Artist and Lisson Gallery, London