1. research Kapoor's work in order to discuss whether it is conceptual art or not. Exlain your answer, using a definition of conceptural art
Anish Kapoor is one of the most influential sculptors of his generation. He is born in Bambay (Indian-born British Installation Artist). According to Lisson Gallery's representation:" Kapoor's work being engaged with deep-rooted metaphysical polarities, pressence and absence, being and non-being, place and non-place and the solid and the intangible".
I think Kapoor's work is conceptural art, the brief of conceptural art is art in which the concepts or ideas involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Each pieces of his works ubiquitous emergence of the shadow of play with wild materials and new ideas. The materials are from nature, such as sandstone, marble and slate are impregnated with raw powdered pigment of vivid hues, thus enhancing a feeling of inner radiance.
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.
The sculpture is called "sky mirror" and it's essentially a large, solid piece of highly polished stainless steel, roughly in the sharp of a contact lens. Also used computer generated a same image at other site. It presents a new way to think and view the world. A viewer said:" it general look of liquids, it resists the sense of fixity of massive public sculptures".
This sculpture entitled "memory", it appears like strong, monodithic and singular sculptures, only to suddenly dissolve into a nimimous void of unfathomable space. In an interview of Kapoor ( http://db-artmag.de/), he said:" you walk in and there is a big object that blocks off the space, it doesnt allow a full view of the form or the building, then you have to physically leave the building and walk around to anotehr entrance to be able to see the other side,the whole idea is you will never know whats going to happen, the only think you know just your memory".
"shooting into the corner2008/09" is on view in the large exhibition hall. Apheumatic compressor shootes 11-kilogram balls of wax into the corner across the room, all in all, 20 tons of wax be fired away throughout the exhibition run. The idea of this work is confrontation with the public is becoing increasingly important to Kapoor, depite the simple sharpes, viewers are unsettled in their preception and forced to complement or continually relativize, their impressions with new views over and again.
3. discuss the large scale ' site specific ' work that has been installed on a private site in New Zealand.
Accoring Latest News:" site specific New Zealand is a theatre collective based in Wellington. Founded by award-winning actor/director Paul McLaughlin, site specific aims to create works of theatre that use locatioin, vocation, music and charactor to create intimate, intriguing and intelligent new plays".
4. where is the Kapoor's work in New Zealand? what are its form and materials? what are the ideas behind the work?
This work entitled 'the farm', it occupied a 1,000acre private estate outdoor art gallery in Kaipara Bay, north of Auckland.
The sculpture is fabricated in a custom deep red PVC-coated polyester fabric by Ferrari Textiles supported by two identical matching red structureal steel ellipses that weigh 42,750kg each, the fabric alone weighs 7,200kg.
'The Farm' is designed to withstand the high winds that blow inland from the Tasman Sea off the northwest coast.
5. comment on which work by Kapoor is your favorite and exlain why. are you personally attracted more by the ideas or the aesthetics of the work
This is my favorite work from Kapoor 'yellow' which be created in 1999
quite early year. First time I saw it the bright yellow attract my view, 'yellow' is a monumental and arresting work, it breaks the traditional thought of color, plus the embrace and subvert form,just a fabulous piece. I like teh process of the finished work, before it got to the quality of finish, we can see the sculpture is meticulously moulded and smoothed down, then after applied the yellow pigment, the surface appears flawless.
references
http://fabricarchitecturemag.com/
www.sitespecifictheatrenewzealand.com/
www.e-flux.com/shows/view
http://db-artmag.de/
http://www.sepiamutiny.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/
www.tate.org.uk/servet/ArtistWorks
http://www.lissongallery.com/
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niveou's blog ( http://niveou.blogspot.com/ )
You gave the defination of the 'conceptural art', but didnt connect with Kapoor's work yet. Kapoor very used to use wildly different materials to explore his those fanbulous new ideas, we can see it in each piece of his works, no doubt this Indian-born Britich istallation artist's work is 'conceptural art'. And we chose 3 totally different works from Kapoor, my choices are 'sky mirrior', 'memory' and 'shooting into the corner', but all of his wirks absolotly brilliant.
bianca's blog (http://biancathompson1992.blogspot.com/)
I quite like 'Leviathan' too, especially when Kapoor exhibit the sculpture in Paris,
call goes out for museums and galleries to close for a day in sympathy for missing Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, Kapoor said:" I never met Ai but he made sunflower seeds work in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, he is not just an artist more like a collage to me",
Kapoor was speaking at the opening of the Monumenta exhibition in Paris's Grand Palais – a commission similar to the Turbine Hall in that it is filling a vast space, this time with the added trickiness of having glass windows all around.
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