The British Sculptor invites visitors to take a look inside an enormous PVC sculpture at the Grand Palais in Paris.

With his largest ever artwork and his first exhibit in Paris in 30 years, Kapoor has created a huge Sci-Fi themed structure that he has dedicated to missing Chinese artist, Ai Weiwei.

Ai, whose sunflower seeds work closed recently at the Tate Modern, hasn’t been seen in over a month. He was arrested as he tried to board a flight to Hong Kong from Beijing on 3^rd April for “economic crimes” and has been missing ever since.

Despite never meeting him, Kapoor considers Weiwei as his colleague and feels that his disappearance is a true tragedy, stating; “Accuse him of something. Give him a lawyer. Let him defend himself…The state is not threatened by artists.”

He has also called for a worldwide day of action where museums and galleries close for a day in sympathy for Ai Weiwei.

Anish is no stranger to creating larger than life artworks after previously filling the Turbine Hall at the Tate in 2002 with his trumpet-like sculpture, Marsyas.

He is also currently working on a 140ft tower for the Olympics stadium next year. However, Leviathan has proved to be a harder task than filling the Turbine, as it is three times the size, both horizontally and vertically.

It is 35 metres high and is made of tightly-stretched PVC over a metal frame. When inflated, the structure consists of 4 connected balloon-like shapes, and takes up about 13,500 square metres. The PVC alone also weighs 18 tonnes.

Kapoor and his team have spent a week inflating it without a trial run as they had “one shot”. He also said that “doing a project like this is about taking a risk.” The work on Leviathan was done all over Europe, with the initial computer work conducted in England, the PVC cut in Germany, assembled in Italy and finally set up by a Czech crew in Paris.

Leviathan will stay up at the Grand Palais until 23^rd June, and is expected to take around 90 minutes to deflate fully.