The glass and white-painted steel roof floats elegantly above the building, letting in natural light so that how the works look changes with the day.

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Along the main drag of Bolshaya Cherkizovskaya, the trees had lost their leaves, revealing sparse playgrounds with wooden seesaws and painted steel climbing bars between the buildings.

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Then, in the second gallery, a new world of possibilities seems to be opening up, with some of Sir Anthony's earliest abstract sculptures from the 1960s, open-work forms in painted steel and aluminium, all resting on the ground.

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To demonstrate the technique, the team painted batteries onto steel, glass, ceramic tile and even a beer stein.

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The ceiling is lined with bamboo slats and supported on a series of enormous Y-shaped steel trusses running down the center which are painted in the colors of the spectrum.

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They crouch behind plywood jails, sit on oil drums painted to look like horses and fire away at steel targets shaped like cowboys, cactuses, buffaloes or playing cards.

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Its mirror-finish black steel skin reflects every passing cloud, giving the building a mysterious totemlike quality, while inside unfinished ceilings are painted deep blue and almost every space can be used flexibly, whether for exhibiting, performances or local events.

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