As a break from all the dense textbooks about dusty marbles, I decided to visit Tate Modern to see Marsyas, Kapoor's monumental blood-red sculpture, which was the third commission in the Unilever series inviting artists to make work for the gallery's echoing Turbine Hall. Upon seeing it, I was amazed – a reaction no doubt shared by many of the 1.85 million people who saw the sculpture before it was dismantled the following year. Marsyas didn't just fill the space around it. It dominated it.

To make this awe-inspiring work of art, Kapoor, assisted by the structural engineer Cecil Balmond, had stretched a crimson PVC membrane between three gargantuan steel rings.

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