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.
Sky Mirror, a large mirror piece that reflects the sky and surroundings, was commissioned for a site outside the Nottingham Playhouse. The artwork itself, which was manufactured in Finland, is a six-metre-wide concave dish of polished stainless steel weighing ten tonnes and angled up towards the sky. It reflects the ever-changing environment, season to season, day and night.
In 2010 a new Anish Kapoor sculpture called "Turning the World Upside Down, Jerusalem" was commissioned and installed at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. The sculpture is described as a "16-foot tall polished-steel hourglass" and it "reflects and reverses the Jerusalem sky and the museum's landscape, a likely reference to the city's duality of celestial and earthly, holy and profane."
Cloud Gate, a public sculpture by Indian-born British artist Anish Kapoor, is the centerpiece of the AT&T Plaza in Millennium Park within the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Kapoor's design was inspired by liquid mercury and the sculpture's surface reflects and distorts the city's skyline. Visitors are able to walk around and under Cloud Gate's 12-foot (3.7 m) high arch. On the underside is the "omphalos" (Greek for "navel"), a concave chamber that warps and multiplies reflections. The sculpture builds upon many of Kapoor's artistic themes, and is popular with tourists as a photo-taking opportunity for its unique reflective properties.
2. Discuss the large scale site specific work that has been installed on a private site in New Zealand.
The title is "Work at The Farm, Kaipara Bay, New Zealand" and it is his first outdoor sculpture in fabric and it looks like a trumpet.
3. Where is the Kapoor's work in New Zealand? What are its form and materials? What are the ideas behind the work?
Kaipara Bay, New Zealand and its made of fabric.
References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Gate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anish_Kapoor
Cloud Gate looks almost like a giant drop of mercury that fell from the sky. Anish Kapoor intended for this beautiful sculpture to be a fate into Chicago by the city it reflects and thus the title. three works are showing ideas of reflection. compare to the work Kapoor did for New Zealand, we realise that reflection is more useful in the city area, because busy environment gives more interesting reflection than rural area.
ReplyDeleteI chose the cloud gate too and i think it is a wonderfully interactive piece, and overall a beautifully executed work or art. they way it distorts the city sky line and reflects every thing gives it a majestic and enigmatic quality.
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