Anish Kapoor
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 whether it is conceptual
art or not. Explain your answer, using a definition of conceptual art.
Kapoor produces large scale site specfic works such as the "Marsyas" 2000, installation at Tate Modern, "Cloud Gate"(2004)Millennium Park,Chicago and the "ArcelorMittal Orbit" 2012 for the London Olympic games. "Conceptual art is a art that favors the concept over material and process. It's when concept decides what materials and processes are used to realise the work. Conceptual Art often refers to art that does not use the traditional processes and materials of painting and sculpture." These works by Kapoor are conceptual in that he has the idea and organizes others to have them made.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_art)
2 research 3 quite different works by Kapoor from countries outside New Zealand to discuss the ideas behind the work,Include images of each work on your blog.
The steel
structure of an arrangement of 76 glossy circles was bubble up to the level of
the surrounding Palladian buildings. It was fifteen metres high. But it seems
weightlessness from the ground view. "It is a conjunction of images I have always loved in his Sonnets to Orpheus and this work is in a way, a kind of eye which is reflecting images endlessly." said Kapoor.
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/sep/20/anish-kapoor-sculpture-royal-academy)
"Leviathan"by Anish Kapoor
grand palais, Paris May 11 to June 23ed 2011
Provides a chance for
viewrs to go
inside the sculpture, which is made out of a red rubber material. It is 35
metres high and comprised of tautly-stretched PVC over a giant metal frame. The
scale alludes the idea of cathedral, such as living body, breathing scared space
and a literally cathedral inside
structure.
(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1385590/Anish-Kapoor-Leviathan-sculpture-unveiled-Grand-Palais-Paris.html)
Anish Kapoor - 'Yellow', 1999, Courtesy of the artist and Lisson Gallery, London
it is a six-square-metre disc, which was made from fibreglass and covered in 12 coats of yellow paint. Only when you approach it, you could understand that the wall is concave, rather than flat. It looked solid but it is actually a void .
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/6218813/Anish-Kapoor-retrospective-at-the-Royal-Academy.html?image=2)
3.Discuss the large scale 'site specific' work that has been installed on a private site in New Zealand.
Dismemberment, Site 1, 2009 Mild steel tube and tensioned fabric; West end 25 x 8m, East end 8 x 25m. Length 85m," transitions from a vertical ellipse seaward to a circle at mid spam to ellipse at lands end." The title of the work and its color refers to the removal of flesh, body parts and both views through the vertical and horizontal ellipses look similar to the Indian Hindus male and female symbols.
(http://fabricarchitecturemag.com/articles/0110_sk_sculpture.html)
4. Where is the Kapoor's work in New Zealand? What are its form and materials? What are the ideas behind the work?
Gibbs Farm is an unusual setting for a sculpture collection. The North Auckland property is dominated by the Kaipara Harbour,The materials of 'site specific' are steel tube and tensioned fabric. Based on title and color of this work, which reflect the removal of flesh and body parts, the views from vertical and horizontal ellipses seem like the symbols of Indian Hindus male and female.
5. Comment on which work by Kapoor is your favourite, and explain why. Are you personally attracted more by
the ideas or the aesthetics of the work?
My favorite work of Anish Kapoor is "Cloud Gate" because i find the shape comforting, it is round and very smooth. I also like the way it looks like a mirror, the way it reflects and distorts the world in it
Youtube has some excellent footage on Kapoor-take a look at Anish Kapoor at the Royal Academy.
www.royalacademy.org.uk ›
http://www.robgarrettcfa.com/thefarm.htm
http://www.billslater.com/cloudgate/
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