The elliptical sculpture promises to be a breathtaking experience for everybody since it will reflect the city's skyline, the lake, Michigan Avenue - everything that represents Chicago. Park visitors will be able to walk underneath the sculpture its concave surface will rise 12 feet of the ground. "I don't believe anybody has ever created a seamless, high-powered stainless steel sculpture this large, so it'll be the first of its kind," said Ed Uhlir, director, Millennium Park.
The giant stainless steel structure will be 20 feet tall, 30 feet wide and 60 feet long. The sculpture itself is funded by a $ 3 million gift from Ameritech and will open in the fall of 2001. The park is estimated to cost nearly $ 200 million and is being financed by a public-private fund partnership. The polished stainless steel objet d'art will be the focal point of the city's millennium park, a grand renovation of a former train yard on the north end of Grant Park. The 'Kapoor sculpture', as officials now call it, will also be the first major public art display of Anish Kapoor in the United States. It will join the Picasso, the Chagall and the Dubett as a new Chicago icon.
Is it a big silver bean? A steel kidney? Or an alien spacecraft? Well, it is Indian-born Anish Kapoor's work of art that will be Chicago's latest addition to its renowned public art display. Rediff On The NeT: A Silver Bean For Chicago
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