Celebrated for his gigantic, stainless steel 'Cloud Gate' sculpture in Chicago’s Millennium Park, Anish Kapoor is changing the cultural environment with his public works.
1.Research Kapoor's work in order to discuss the ideas behind 3 quite different works from countries outside New Zealand.
2.Discuss the large scale site specific work that has been installed on a private site in New Zealand.
3. Where is the Kapoor's work in New Zealand? What are its form and materials? What are the ideas behind the work?
4. Comment on which work by Kapoor is your favourite, and why.
Youtube has some excellent footage on Kapoor-take a look at Anish Kapoor at the Royal Academy!!
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Labels: Anish Kapoor, The Farm
1.4th picture [Shooting into the Corner] The work Shooting into the Corner inhabits two worlds; it is both an artefact and a performative piece of art. It will change and evolve during the exhibition, as the splattered wax on the wall gradually builds up. Kapoor is using chance and time to make a huge drawing in the corner of the gallery. Is Kapoor trying in a futile manner to break down the walls of the gallery? Does he want to break through and
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2nd picture [Cloud Gate] It is made of 168 highly polished stainless steel plates, and stands at 33 feet high, 66 feet long, and 42 feet wide, weighing 110 tons. From a distance it could be mistaken for a huge drop of mercury, while up close its highly reflective surface captures and transforms the skyline, the downtown cityscape and even the passers-by into a wonderfully warped new vista. The artist, Anish Kapoor, has referred to the sculpture as “a gate to Chicago, a poetic idea about the city it reflects.” The 12-foot underbelly is called the “omphalos” or navel and multiplies reflections in a vortex.
1st picture [Turning the World Upside Down] “Jerusalem is all about a very special relationship between the ground and the sky. This work attempts to bring the two together.” Very suitable for the city whose reputation is established as one of eminent dichotomy between “celestial and earthly,” Anish Kapoor said.
2.‘The Farm’ The purpose of the project was to design, fabricate and install a tensioned membrane sculpture, as defined by Anish Kapoor, to provide a permanent horizontally supported work of art to complement an outdoor art gallery.
3.it is displayed to the private estate outdoor art gallery in Kaipara Bay north of Auckland, NewZealand. The sculpture was fabricated in Ferrari 1302-S series PVC fabric in a deep red custom color. Two identical structural steel ellipses support the fabric span of 280? with a self-weight of 16,000 pounds. The major axis of the ellipse is 80? and minor axis 40?, with each ellipse weighing 95,000 pounds. The ellipses are orientated one horizontal and the other vertical. Kapoor appreciates what engineers and tensile fabricators do because it affects his work: “I am concerned with the way in which the language of engineering can be turned into the language of the body,” he says. “Marsyas” relied heavily on the skills of both Arup for the engineering and Bo Hightex for the piece’s fabrication.
4. I really like the first picture [Turning the World Upside Down] because his work reminds me the idea of 'The death of the author'. When I looked at his work it makes me think what if the sky means the ground and the ground means the sky. We had created the symbolic of everything but no one can understand the meaning of such as love, honest, right, wrong, good, bad and etc. What is symbolic such as above exactly mean. We have different point of view and thought. No one can understand each other 100%. I think this work could show us different point of view, if I stand at the front, back, side and from far distance, people in different position will see different point of view. We are always alone in this world, each has different idea. I think this work is my favorite piece of Anish Kapoor.
the 'turning the world upside down' was a very interesting piece, and i sadly did not come across it while i was researching. I like that you related it to contrasts between things ranging from love to morality. Overall interesting concept and beautifully executed piece of artwork.
ReplyDeleteI researched a inteesting peice called untitled (2007) monumental sculpture in Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art. The sculpture, made of highly polished, resin fibreglass in a deep red is the most significant work by Kapoor in an Australian state public art gallery collection and was commissioned by the Queensland Art Gallery Board of Trustees in 2006 to mark the opening of GoMA. This piece reflects Kapoor’s mastery of his chosen materials and offers visitors the artist’s response to the Gallery’s architectural space. this is my favourite peice
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