Sky Mirror
Sky Mirror stands at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, beside the lotus-shaped ArtScience Museum. Anish Kapoor’s polished stainless steel sculpture rests in a lily pond at a thirty-degree angle. Its circular surface measures 2.9 metres across and weighs 1,800 kilograms. From this position, the metal reflects the museum and sky, making the sky appear to descend into the water.
The work forms part of the Marina Bay Sands Art Path, where contemporary art meets resort architecture. Eleven large-scale installations by eight artists create a route through the complex, including Drift and Rain Oculus. Sky Mirror is Kapoor’s first permanent outdoor installation of this kind in Asia. Its reflective surface changes with Singapore’s surroundings, revealing shifting views from daylight into night.
Versions of the sculpture have appeared at Rockefeller Center, the Hermitage Museum and Kensington Gardens. Here, the most striking detail is the meeting of three surfaces: polished steel, lily pond and sky.
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