Svayambh, 2007
Video about Anish Kapoor: Memory
Friday, February 12, 2010
Anish Kapoor @ the Guggenheim
Indian Artist Anish Kapoor creates large scale installations/sculptures. His works are sensorial and often excite our sense of tactility, form and color. His work often enters into dialogue with architecture and encompasses his viewer's within monumental works. His work is currently on view at the Guggenheim in a solo exhibition entitled "Anish Kapoor: Memory". Please find below a link to that site and a video about the artist's work that includes the artist speaking about his exhibition at the Guggenheim.
Video about Anish Kapoor: Memory
Video about Anish Kapoor: Memory
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Interesting 'mental sculpture.' The viewer is forced to work at seeing it, and then there is the massive, bulging industrial aesthetic conflicting with the dark void elsewhere. Not something immediately fascinating, but grows with you over time.
ReplyDeleteBe sure to look at the interview on the Guggenheim site, also for more of his work visit his site at: www.anishkapoor.com
ReplyDeleteI think you will find that his work is quite compelling.
He plays with the viewer in many of his works. "Cloud Gate" of 2001, found in Millennium Park in Chicago is amazing. But you really can not experience it unless you get very close to it, or under it. I have some great pictures from the SOFA trip if anyone is interested. I think the most interesting aspect of his work, is how people interact with it.
ReplyDeleteOOPS sorry. "Cloud Gate" was 2004
ReplyDeleteyea doode, In some very recent reading about the "red" tubes (model for paris subway system installation) Anish spoke to the fact that he wanted to embellish the fact that the user was going underground. The red tubes are distinctly veinlike in their appearance... What I'm wondering is, does anyone know if he has explored the use of other forms which go into larger bodies?
ReplyDeleteHere, he uses "veins" to represent that of blood (people) going into a "body" (subway system) that is linked and moves in both directions. I wonder if he considered trees? Granted its still a literal notion- that of having a large trunk with branches- but that would change the color and feel of the entire composition- think about it...
The tunnels would be like the roots- also dark, but rich with the vital elements to the surrounding body (people- which pay and allow for the system to function) and could hold elements of light- afterall, the material in the roots of trees is very commonly lighter than the actual heartwood...
what other bodies and structures do you guys think he could've possibly explored as options for his subway models?