Week 6- Anish Kapoor Sculpture

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.
Conceptual art is art in which the concept or idea involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Different from the art work is create by randomly. I can see Kapoor's art work is belong conceptual art. For example, one of his work 'Cloud Gate(2004)' people can see whole city scenery, skyline and the people walking around on the street in this work which is the reflection. He said about the idea of his work is 'non-object'. The shape of cloud gate is not a curl is like the hug pose and is also means the identify of this society.

Cloud Gate (2004), Millennium Park, Chicago

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.

 

Anish Kapoor
Shooting into the Corner, 2008/2009
©Wolfgang Woessner/MAK

"Shooting into the Corner" is on of the famous work from Kapoor. The cannon shoots 11 kilogram heavy wax balls into the corner of the next room. Is also consists of a cannon developed by him together with a team of engineers. A pneumatic compressor shoots 11-kilogram balls of wax into the corner across the room; all in all, 20 tons of wax will be "fired away" throughout the exhibition run. Loud aggression on the one hand and silent growth on the other give the piece tension, sensuality, and compelling power.

Past Present Future, 2006
Anish Kapoor

"Past, Present, Future", a motor-driven steel plate peels off layer after layer of a blood-red huge hemisphere of wax with one move of the arm taking a full hour. Is assembles 14 works made since 1980, a period in which Kapoor's sculptures and installations have grown increasingly ambitious and complex.

''Sky Mirror'', a breathtaking, 35-foot-diameter concave mirror that was shown in 2006 at Rockefeller Center in New York. Is offers a dazzling experience of light and architecture, presenting viewers with a vivid inversion of the skyline featuring the historic landmark building at 30 Rockefeller Plaza.. Sky Mirror is on view, free and open to the public, from September 19th through October 27th, 2006. This exhibition is presented by Tumi, organized by the Public Art Fund and hosted by Rockefeller Center owner Tishman Speyer.

3.Discuss the large scale 'site specific' work that has been installed on a private site in New Zealand.

Anish Kapoor has undertaken the third in The Unilever Series of commissions for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. He is renowned for his enigmatic sculptural forms that permeate physical and psychological space. Kapoor's inventiveness and versatility have resulted in works ranging from powdered pigment sculptures and site-specific interventions on wall or floor, to gigantic installations both in and outdoors. Throughout, he has explored what he sees as deep-rooted metaphysical polarities: presence and absence, being and non-being, place and non-place and the solid and the intangible.

4. Where is the Kapoor's work in New Zealand? What are its form and materials? What are the ideas behind the work?

“The Farm,” a 400ha (1,000 acre) private estate outdoor art gallery in Kaipara Bay, north of Auckland, New Zealand. Kapoor’s first outdoor sculpture in fabric, “The Farm” (the sculpture is named after its site), is designed to withstand the high winds that blow inland from the Tasman Sea off the northwest coast of New Zealand’s North Island. The sculpture is fabricated in a custom deep red PVC-coated polyester fabric by Ferrari Textiles supported by two identical matching red structural steel ellipses that weigh 42,750kg each. The fabric alone weighs 7,200kg.

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?

White Sand, Red Millet, Many Flowers(1982). Wood, cement, pigment.

I really this work from Kappor, in the early1980s, his scuplture consisted of simple forms coverd in dry, loose pigment in saturated colors such as red, yellow and blue, and he has stated that 'The act of putting pigment on these objects removes all traces of the hand. they are not made, they are just there.' His use of dense, pure pigments tends to dematerislize his forms, mal=king them harder to real as solid shapes. In several works, the pigment falls off the form, leaving a penumbra of colour on the floor around it, rather like a halo.








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BOOK: Sculpture Today







Comment on http://niveou.blogspot.com/2011/09/week-6-anish-kapoor-sculpture.html

I agreed how you analyze one of his work could gate, and I also think this work is not only a beautiful art work also is a successful public sculpture. The shape of the sculpture is also means the hug position as human and the reflection people can see through whole city view and even the skyline. It is a important and good social identify.

Comment on http://monkeyqry.blogspot.com/2011/09/anish-kapoor-sculpture.html

I angreed how your opinion of question 1, but I also think we can find many relation between conceptural art. From how his think before doin the art work, he consider about the material, location, size and meaning for views. The best example is Cloud Gate.