Leviathan Monumenta Grand Palais Paris
Paris, Frankreich
Hightex was responsible for the engineering, production and erection of the artwork. The entire surface of the sculpture is made of a single piece of PVC-coated polyester membrane with a surface area of approx. 12.100m². The “walk-in” sculpture is approx. 100 meters long, 34 meters high and weighs 12 tons. It is an inflatable sculpture, clamped to the ground and entrance arch and in a Bordeaux-red colour specially chosen by the artist. Hightex installed the sculpture in only 8 days.
Each year MONUMENTA invites an internationally-renowned artist to turn his vision to the vast Nave of Paris’ Grand Palais and to create a new artwork especially for this space. MONUMENTA is an artistic creation on an unparalleled scale, filling a space with an area of 13,500 sqm and a height of 35m. Anish Kapoor’s ambition for the Grand Palais is to create an aesthetic and physical shock, a colourful experience that is poetic, meditative and stunning, measuring itself against the height and light of the Nave, an interior that seems somehow greater than the exterior.
Fakten
Realisierung Membranstruktur
Hightex GmbHJahr
2011Kunde
White Dark Limited, London, UK Réunion des Musées Nationaux,Paris, FranceStadt / Land
Paris, FrankreichStandort
EuropaDachfläche
12073 m²Fassadenfläche
– m²Auftraggeber
–Architekt
Artist and Owner: Mr. Anish KapoorEngineering
Hightex GmbH