![]() This was unveiled on Jand was officially dedicated on May 15, 2006. The Bean is positioned at the north east side of Chicago’s Millennium Park and near the lakefront of the Grant Park. His most recent and controversial sculpture was the Dirty Corner at the Versailles in 2015. The Cloud Gate or the Bean more commonly known was one his first ever public sculpture made for the United States of America. To name a few of them the Mountain in Toronto, the Sky Mirror one of which is in Kensington gardens of London and the other at the Rockefeller Center in New York, turning the world upside down in Jerusalem. He has created a variety of site specific and some commissioned sculptures across the globe. The composition of this is more than just a mere sculpture but an engaging artwork which involves participation.Īnish Kapoor is an Indian born British sculptor lives and works in London. The beauty of this reflective sculpture is the scale, the geometric shape and the material. This is shiny, elliptical magnanimous sculpture is at the Chicago Millennium Park of the United States of America. And then, since it is in the form of a gate, the participant, the viewer, will be able to enter into this very deep chamber that does, in a way, the same thing to one’s reflection as the exterior of the piece is doing to the reflection of the city around.Cloud Gate, is one of the most talked about and a ‘must see’ sculpture by the artist Anish Kapoor. “What I wanted to do in Millennium Park is make something that would engage the Chicago skyline … so that one will see the clouds kind of floating in, with those very tall buildings reflected in the work. No public money was spent, the entire project was funded from donations. The final figure was closer to 21 million USD. The British engineering firm Atelier One and the freelance engineer Chris Hornzee-Jones (who later went on to form the engineering firm Aerotrope in 2005 which would focus on Air Turbines, Low Carbon Vehicles and Art Pieces, provided the sculpture’s structural design, this was a difficult object to design and the elegant solution found by Mr Hornzee-Jones is just beautiful.Ĭosts were difficult, the original estimate were were around 6 million USD. The stainless steel surface of Anish Kapoor’s Cloud Gate sculpture covered in ice in freezing Chicago temperatures. If the sun is hitting the stainless steel directly you cant look at it with open eyes, if a white fluffy cloud passes over head, you see a distorted image of the cloud, other worldly, strange not belonging to us but recognisable. ![]() The sculpture plays with light and changes constantly, minute to minute. The sculpture builds upon many of Kapoor’s artistic themes and is very popular with tourists as a photo-taking opportunity for its unique reflective properties. The Omphalos is a concave chamber that warps and multiplies reflections. An ever-changing reflection of the cityscape The Omphalos stones are also referred to as baetylus which means sacred stone, these stones were usually dedicated to a God. All the Omphalas are marking the centre of the world, usually the Omphalas were erected in the place with the most trade and money at the time. This word is how the Greek’s described the centre of the world, it was a powerful religious symbol to them, describing a stone at the centre of the world, there a several of these stones throughout the Mediterranean. On the underside is the Omphalos, which is Greek for Navel or Boss. Visitors are able to walk around and under Cloud Gate’s 3.7 meter high arch. The piece was inspired by a drop of mercury and is just such a beautiful, startling thing.Ĭloud Gate’s surface reflects and distorts the Chicago’s skyline. My personal favourite piece of his Cloud Gate which is the centrepiece of AT&T Plaza at the Millennium Park in Chicago Illinois. Kapoor has lived and worked in London since the 1970’s ![]() ![]() Cloud Gate was Kapoor’s first public sculpture in the USA. Kapoor won the Turner prize in 1991 for this an untitled piece in Sandstone and Pigment. Kapoor was knighted in the 2013 Queen’s, Birthday Honours list for services to the visual arts. Cloud Gate, also known locally as “The Bean”, is by the fashionable and brilliant Indian born British artist Sir Anish Kapoor.
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