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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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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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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His answer was to have the walls in the galleries painted in shades of gray, ranging from very pale in the 20th century displays to echo the hues of steel and aluminum associated with that era's technological advances -- to deep and dark hues in the medieval galleries.

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