TARATANTARA

Taratantara is an installation designed by Anish Kapoor for Piazza Plebiscito in Naples. The sculpture has been placed in an unconventional location for a work of art in a neo-classical square between the colonnade of San Francesco da Paola Church and Palazzo Reale. For the last six years now, Naples has handed over its most important city square to an artist at the end of the year. This is a way of bringing people into closer contact with art and has gradually turned into a sort of good luck ritual for Naples. Anish Kapoor’s Taratantara is a 52-metre-long PVC membrane held up by two 39-metre-tall metal towers. Co-ordinated by the curators Eduardo Cicelyn and Mario Codognato, the project was jointly sponsored by the Naples City Council, the Campania Region, the Istituto Banco di Napoli, the Henry Moore Foundation, and the British Council. The technical co-ordination was handled by: Fabio Dumontet, Daniela Antonini and Alex Zaske (Naples). Atelier One (London) was commissioned to handle the structural engineering and membrane and Italstage (Naples) worked on the scaffolding.

TARATANTARA

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