Marsyas anish kapoor sculpture

Sculpture by Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond

Marsyas is a 150-meter-long, ten storey high sculpture designed by Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond.

It was on show at Tate Modern gallery, London in 2003 and was commissioned as part of the Unilever Series. Marsyas was the third in a series of commissions for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall and the first to make use of the entire space.^[1]

Anish Kapoor is renowned for his sculptural forms that permeate physical and psychological space.^[2] Cecil Balmond is a designer, artist, architect, engineer, and writer.

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He is also the recipient of the RIBA Charles Jencks Award for Theory in Practice.^[3]

Marsyas consists of three steel rings joined together by a single span of specially-designed red PVC membrane.

The two rings are positioned vertically, at each end of the space, while a third is suspended parallel with the bridge. Wedged into place, the geometry generated by these three rigid ste