This is the best cultural thrill I’ve had in a long long time. Absolutely fantastic! Anish Kapoor, the international indian sculptor has created a monumental piece of art that is presented in the Grand Palais in Paris, as part of its Monumenta 2011 exhibition. It is an enormous rubber sculpture, I think it looks like 3 giant aubergines fused together(!) and it’s sheer size, sensual shape and beautiful deep purple colour just transfixes you. The fact that it is placed within such a historic elegant building of light and glass as the Grand Palais makes the whole experience even more fascinating.

You can even go inside the sculpture! The atmosphere inside is like the stomach of a whale or a galactic spaceship. The red light is the natural sunlight passing through the glassroof of the Grand Palais and penetrating the purple rubber of the sculpture….incredible.