Anish Kapoor / Monumenta / Paris

Each year MONUMENTA invites an internationally-renowned artist to turn
their vision to the vast Nave of Paris’ Grand Palais and to create a new
artwork especially for this space. MONUMENTA is an artistic interaction on
an unparalleled scale, filling 13,500m² and a height of 35m.
The first three MONUMENTA exhibitions were hugely successful, drawing in
150,000 visitors over five weeks. In 2007, the first challenge was met by
German artist Anselm Kiefer, who resides in France, followed by American
artist Richard Serra in 2008 and French artist Christian Boltanski in 2010. For
its fourth incarnation, the French Ministry for Culture and Communication has
invited Anish Kapoor, one of his generation’s greatest artists, to produce a
new work for the Nave’s monumental space, from 11th May to 23rd June
2011.