Anish Kapoor is a well known artist that works with sculpture. He is famous for gigantic works of stainless steel all over the world. Three of his most famous pieces are the Sky mirror, Svayambh also known as ‘The train’, and Jerusalem also known as ‘Turning the world upside down’. The ‘sky mirror’ is a beautiful piece. It stands three stories tall and is 35-foot in diameter. It is made of a reflective stainless steel material. This cylinder shaped mirror is slightly concaved which makes its other side convex for reflection purposes. The Sky mirror is placed on an angle facing the sky to reflect the ever changing environment, from the slow change between seasons to the sun rise and sun set of everyday. Another of Kapoor’s works is the Svayambh also know as the ‘The train’. The train is another large scaled piece leading from one end of a gallery and ending in the other. It is made of a red wax like material with train tracks trailing from the beginning and end of the long red wax piece. In the Hebrew religion blood is often associated with the apocalypse, in where the mass red wax block symbolizes the blood through Jerusalem. The red heifer may refer to “Adom” which comes from “parah adumah” which means red and red means blood which leads to the apocalypse. Another one of Kapoor’s famous works is his piece tuning the world upside down, Jerusalem. Jerusalem is also a large scaled, stainless steel piece where Anish has played with reflection. The stainless steel piece is inverted therefore the upper half reflects the earth and terrain and the lower half reflects the Jerusalem sky’s. The inversed reflection relates ideas of the earthly and heavenly realms which high lights the spiritual side of the country, exploring the earthly and celestial Jerusalem. These three works are quite similar in material used and scale wise but the ideas behind them are very different but they all seem to be linked through Kapoor’s Hebrew origins.
Kapoor also has work a beautiful piece in New Zealand, just a 50 minute drive outside the CBD is a sculpture park at the Alan Gibb’s farm. This beautiful piece is made up of wire and red fabric which allows the piece to flow with the wind. The piece is some what of a celestial megaphone, I guess since in most of Kapoor’s works the celestial concept explores Heavenly ideas, the mega phone could represent a instrument to cast enlightenment over the land.
One of my favorite works from Kapoor is the Cloud Gate which has been in Chicago and has since moved around to other states in the America. The Cloud Gate is another large scaled stainless steel piece which plays with the idea of reflection. This piece challenges your perception of different realities through how its sphere like shape may reflects a distorted and deformed reality of viewers passing by and of the clouds that pass by. Kapoors work is usually inspired by his Hindu culture. The Cloud gate represents the Hindu duality between Lingam and Yoni, both male and female counter parts, expressing the classic clash of the sexes, the tension between masculine and feminine. This piece interest me through how it may perceive an alter reality through distorting and deforming. I like how art has evolved to where the disturbing and unusual may be beautiful and how one reality can become two different realities through different views.
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ANISH KAPOOR
ReplyDeleteAnish Kapoor is a well known artist that works with sculpture. He is famous for gigantic works of stainless steel all over the world. Three of his most famous pieces are the Sky mirror, Svayambh also known as ‘The train’, and Jerusalem also known as ‘Turning the world upside down’. The ‘sky mirror’ is a beautiful piece. It stands three stories tall and is 35-foot in diameter. It is made of a reflective stainless steel material. This cylinder shaped mirror is slightly concaved which makes its other side convex for reflection purposes. The Sky mirror is placed on an angle facing the sky to reflect the ever changing environment, from the slow change between seasons to the sun rise and sun set of everyday. Another of Kapoor’s works is the Svayambh also know as the ‘The train’. The train is another large scaled piece leading from one end of a gallery and ending in the other. It is made of a red wax like material with train tracks trailing from the beginning and end of the long red wax piece. In the Hebrew religion blood is often associated with the apocalypse, in where the mass red wax block symbolizes the blood through Jerusalem. The red heifer may refer to “Adom” which comes from “parah adumah” which means red and red means blood which leads to the apocalypse. Another one of Kapoor’s famous works is his piece tuning the world upside down, Jerusalem. Jerusalem is also a large scaled, stainless steel piece where Anish has played with reflection. The stainless steel piece is inverted therefore the upper half reflects the earth and terrain and the lower half reflects the Jerusalem sky’s. The inversed reflection relates ideas of the earthly and heavenly realms which high lights the spiritual side of the country, exploring the earthly and celestial Jerusalem. These three works are quite similar in material used and scale wise but the ideas behind them are very different but they all seem to be linked through Kapoor’s Hebrew origins.
Kapoor also has work a beautiful piece in New Zealand, just a 50 minute drive outside the CBD is a sculpture park at the Alan Gibb’s farm. This beautiful piece is made up of wire and red fabric which allows the piece to flow with the wind. The piece is some what of a celestial megaphone, I guess since in most of Kapoor’s works the celestial concept explores Heavenly ideas, the mega phone could represent a instrument to cast enlightenment over the land.
One of my favorite works from Kapoor is the Cloud Gate which has been in Chicago and has since moved around to other states in the America. The Cloud Gate is another large scaled stainless steel piece which plays with the idea of reflection. This piece challenges your perception of different realities through how its sphere like shape may reflects a distorted and deformed reality of viewers passing by and of the clouds that pass by. Kapoors work is usually inspired by his Hindu culture. The Cloud gate represents the Hindu duality between Lingam and Yoni, both male and female counter parts, expressing the classic clash of the sexes, the tension between masculine and feminine. This piece interest me through how it may perceive an alter reality through distorting and deforming. I like how art has evolved to where the disturbing and unusual may be beautiful and how one reality can become two different realities through different views.