- Sky Mirror
Sky Mirror is a piece of
public art commissioned by theNottingham Playhouse fromartist Anish Kapoor that stands outside the theatre in Wellington Circus,Nottingham .It took six years from the initial idea for a major new piece of public art to the unveiling of Sky Mirror on 27 April 2001, and cost £900,000.Fact|date=June 2008 At the time, it was the most expensive piece of civic art funded by the
National Lottery .Fact|date=June 2008The artwork itself, which was manufactured in
Finland , is a six-metre wide concave dish of polishedstainless steel weighing ten tonnes and angled up towards the sky. It reflects the ever changing environment, season to season, day and night.In the Fall of 2006 (Sept. 19-Oct. 27), Sky Mirror was unveiled at Rockefeller Center in
New York City . The installation was a larger version of theNottingham sculpture. It had a 35-foot-diameter (10.6metres ), stood three stories tall, and weighed 23 tons.Fact|date=June 2008 The convex side faced Fifth Avenue, the concave side the Rockefeller Center courtyard. The sculpture reflected and inverted the Center's skyscrapers, thus, in the words of the artist, bringing "the sky down to the ground".Fact|date=June 2008In autumn 2007 the Nottingham Playhouse Sky Mirror was voted Pride of Place in a poll to find Nottingham's favourite landmark.Fact|date=June 2008
External links
* [http://www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/skymirror/ Sky Mirror website]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/360/views/sky_mirror.shtml Images of the Sky Mirror and Wellington Circus from BBC Nottingham]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/news/2001_04/09/skymirror_arrives.shtml BBC News reporting the unveiling of the Sky Mirror]
* [http://www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk Nottingham Playhouse]
* [http://publicartfund.org/pafweb/projects/06/kapoor/kapoor-06.html Sky Mirror, New York]
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