His monumental public sculptures have been seen by tens of millions of people from Chicago to Tel Aviv. In London alone, the 4m or so who visited Tate Modern in 2002 could not have missed his dark red, 500-foot-long (152-metre) pvc-covered "Marsyas" which soared across the Turbine Hall. That piece worked so well, the space might have been created especially for it, rather than the other way around. "I like the idea a lot that you go somewhere to see something that has a particular relevance to a particular place," said Anish Ka-poor. But he quickly added: "A good work of art should be able to stand on its own."
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