Cloud Gate on the AT&T Plaza
Cloud Gate is British artist Anish Kapoor's first public outdoor work installed in the United States. The 110-ton elliptical sculpture is forged of a seamless series of highly polished stainless steel plates, which reflect the city's famous skyline and the clouds above. A 12-foot-high arch provides a "gate" to the concave chamber beneath the sculpture, inviting visitors to touch its mirror-like surface and see their image reflected back from a variety of perspectives.
Inspired by liquid mercury, the sculpture is among the largest of its kind in the world, measuring 66-feet long by 33-feet high.
2 comments:
Wow, thats amazing. Chicago has so much fabulous art. Thank you for sharing both the picture and information.
How interesting, and how impressive it must be to stand near and look up at that sculpture... I'm amazed at just how successfully public-sculpture has caught on... In San Francisco we have a really huge bow-and-arrow that is stuck into the ground -- I couldn't believe it when I first saw it, and now I get a chuckle out of it everytime I pass by...
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