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Kapoor keen for Boris to slide on to European soil

The Art Newspaper
27 April 2016
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Carsten Holler’s 178-metre tunnel slide will soon be wrapped around Anish Kapoor’s sculpture in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London. The eye-watering ride down the ArcelorMittal Orbit may not, at 76 metres high, be for the fainthearted. Thrill-seekers will be able to try the slide—which is dotted with windows—from 24 June for a £17 fee. Kapoor told The Belfast Telegraph that the outgoing London Mayor, Boris Johnson, should inaugurate the bendy-straw shaped slide, pointing out that the launch takes place a day after the referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union. “We want to make sure that Boris’s feet land in Europe,” says Kapoor, who is evidently hoping that the Brexit cheerleader lands firmly on UK soil (that is still in the EU, anticipates Anish). 

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