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. 33 feet tall, 66 feet long and 42 feet wide; Cloud gate is made of 168 highly polished pieces.With his mysterious Anish Kapoor form with the physiological and psychological space.
2.Discuss the large scale site specific work that has been installed on a private site in New Zealand.
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. In his exploration, his view is rooted in the metaphysical polarity: presence and absence, being and non-being, place and non-place and the solid and the intangible. Kapoor’s idea is that if he empties out all the content and just make something that is an empty form, then he doesn’t empty out the contect at all, he is trying to approach the idea of content should be more surprising than the content itself. Kapoor uses red because it is the colour of the physical, the bodily, the earthly. He wants to make body into sky. This is the colour to form horizons which are bigt enough to encompass the view and bathe one in a field of colour.
3. Where is the Kapoor's work in New Zealand? What are its form and materials? What are the ideas behind the work
Site - specific Work at The Farm is ?at Kaipara Bay. Comprises three steel rings joined together by a single span of PVC membrane. Two are positioned vertically, at each end of the space, while a third is suspended parallel with the bridge. Seemingly wedged into place, the geometry generated by these three rigid steel structures determines the sculpture’s overall form, a shift from vertical to horizontal and back to vertical again.
4. Comment on which work by Kapoor is your favourite, and why
I like the Site - Specific Work at the Farm. I like the colour contrast. and the size of the work is making me confused with the actual size of the landscape. it is very interesting.
Kapoor's "The Farm" was really interesting. However, this might just be me, but I have a problem with spending so much money for something that has no purpose other than to be looked at. I sound like a huge hypocrite but, I guess for me there are just limits to what can be accepted as a project well spent... Lol. < T^T
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