Park Sculptures

Anish Kapoor

Sky Mirror, 2018

Stainless steel

320 cm

Col. Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto. Aquisição com o apoio de: Álvaro Pinho da Costa Leite e Maria Augusta Resende da Costa Leite; Ana Pinho Macedo Silva e João Nuno Macedo Silva BPI | Fundação “la Caixa”; Cerealis, SGPS., S.A.; Fernanda Arrepia e Carlos Moreira da Silva; Ingrid Dhanis e Luís Portela; Mafalda da Cunha Guedes e Fernando Guedes; Margarida e Belmiro de Azevedo; Maria Fernanda e Américo Amorim; Palácio da Bolsa - Associação Comercial do Porto; Regina Leite e João Borges de Oliveira; Super Bock Group em 2019

SKY MIRROR, by Anish Kapoor (Mumbai, 1954) was part of the artist's major exhibition, ANISH KAPOOR: WORKS, THOUGHTS, EXPERIMENTS, presented at the Serralves Museum and Park in 2018–19. It was acquired by the Serralves Foundation and has been displayed since then as another permanent sculpture in Serralves Park. Located in the Sundial Garden, at the end of the colonnaded pergola that delimits the Rose Garden, the work — which consists of a concave dish of polished stainless steel — reflects the geometric surroundings of the small enclosure, and the images of the visitors. Having been exhibited on varying scales throughout the world, in cities such as London, New York or Mumbai, SKY MIRROR has become synonymous with Kapoor's sculptural oeuvre. Made in collaboration with physicists, in order to achieve the necessary optical and mathematical precision, it obliges observers to enter its domain in order to contemplate it fully. Through the reflection of an ever-changing reality, the artist alludes to what we could assume to be a “third space” - a space which could be said to connect heaven and earth, the material and immaterial, the manmade and the self-produced - the transitory and the changeable.