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MOMUMENTA is an annual event each year where an internationally renowned artist is invited to turn his/her vision to the vast Grand Palais Nave. Richard Serra and Anselm Keifer have been past participants. Anish Kapoor's sculpture alludes to the idea of the cathedral: the body as living, breathing sacred space. You first enter by passing through a doorway into an immense, red womb-like space, (pictured above), lit through its membrane-like surface which looks soft, but is rubbery in feel. Gaping orifices open out into pod-like spaces. You're in the object itself, with no sense of the surrounding environment--until the sun comes out projecting the web-like patterns of the Grand Palais's roof over the rounded surfaces. |