Take My Lightning But Don’t Steal My Thunder

A new ‘cloud’ will rise over London’s Covent Garden this October thanks to innovative British artist Alex Chinneck.

His new installation ‘Take my Lightning but Don’t Steal my Thunder’ will suspend reality and see a section of the Market Building magically levitate over the Piazza.

Chinneck’s new artwork will combine art, architecture and theatre design, blurring familiarity with fantasy to transform an ordinary everyday view of Covent Garden’s Piazza into the extraordinary.

Inspired by the performance culture that’s synonymous with the neighbourhood, the 29-year old artist and his team will conjure the illusion that a 40-foot-long building has broken from its stone base and floated over 10 feet into the air with apparent and astonishing weightlessness. The installation will be modelled on the original architecture of the 184-year old Market Building and take residence on the East Piazza from 2nd October.