Ken Kelleher’s Seven-Metre Madrigal Anchors a New Sculpture Park at Shuizhiyun City

For Immediate Release · 2020

Ken Kelleher’s Seven-Metre Madrigal Anchors a New Sculpture Park at Shuizhiyun City

A monumental mirror-finish stainless steel work becomes a centrepiece of a new cultural destination.

Kunshan, China

KUNSHAN — Internationally recognized sculptor Ken Kelleher, also known as Anchorball, has installed Madrigal, a seven-metre mirror-finish stainless steel sculpture, as part of a new sculpture park at the Shuizhiyun City Culture Center.

Part of Kelleher’s Elemental practice, the work transforms movement into a resolved monumental form, its reflective surface continually animated by the surrounding landscape and light.

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A sculpture park is a promise a community makes to art. Being the centrepiece of one — a work people return to season after season — is exactly what I want the Elemental pieces to do.
— Ken Kelleher (aka Anchorball)

For developers and cultural institutions, the commission demonstrates how a major sculpture can define a new public cultural destination.

Madrigal is part of Kelleher’s international Elemental series, installed across major civic and cultural environments in Asia and beyond.