1.Research Kapoor's work in order to discuss the ideas behind 3 quite different works from countries outside New Zealand.
svayambh
‘Svayambh’ is a Sanskrit word, meaning something that is “created out of itself”. Anish Kapoor got together with Aerotrope as consulting engineers in creating this amazing piece of work ‘Svayambh’, this piece is only one of his series of artworks using wax, some get more complex than this one. Anish Kapoor’s vision for the project was to create an installation where the final form and texture of the wax would be shaped by the motion of a mechanically driven object. It was decided that this movement was required to be barely visible both visually and audibly, whilst both sculpting and moving the large mass of wax through the gallery space
Drip (2008)
Part of Mr. Kapoor's passion for red, the most passionate of colors, is certainly evident in Boston, but it dominates his show at the Gladstone Gallery’s flagship space on West 24th Streetinstalation is the work 'Drip' Kapoor's works focus around the metallic red interiors and exteriors. This large tear-shaped wall piece titled 'Drip' in metallic red, implies both blood and another abstract pregnancy.
'Cloud Gate' (2004)
Mr. Kapoor has managed to surpass many of his ancestors in the widely growing popularity of his art and the ways its confusing yet elegant puzzled sculptures, open up the subtly to deeper forms of thought. Kapoor’s wildly popular 'Cloud Gate' an enormous, shiny, ok so too me this looks alot like a giant bean mysteriously balancing on both ends, not a 'cloud gate' as it is titled, Kapoor's design for this piece was inspired by liquid mercury and the sculpture's surface reflects and distorts the city's skyline at Millennium Park in Chicago.
2.Discuss the large scale site specific work that has been installed on a private site in New Zealand.
Anish Kapoor 'The Farm'
(2003-2008)
This is Anish Kapoor's amazing, 84m-long, twisted red cone. It cuts through a ridge like some celestial megaphone but being made of red polyester fabric and steel it holds no other similarity/likeness of materials to one. This piece is is located here in New Zealand in the Kaipara Bay just north of Auckland, It is designed to reflect and twist the images of the surrounding landscape and to withstand the high winds that blow in from the Tasman Sea. It is made of red polyester fabric and steel.
3. Where is the Kapoor's work in New Zealand? What are its form and materials? What are the ideas behind the work?
As previously stated, the work is located in New Zealand in the Kaipara Bay just north of Auckland, this work was designed to cause the viewer to question certain factors of what they already know, the viewers perception of space, time and reality.
4. Comment on which work by Kapoor is your favourite, and why.
My favourite of his works is 'The Sea mirror' essentially because of the idea that something could be two different things at one instance, he has done something similar, if you are staring out into the ocean and then you turn around seeing the same image but the wave is towering over you, this would be quite a shock if you did not know of the effect before hand. The wave is taking two different forms but the truth is they are still one image.
Sea Mirror 2005
Youtube has some excellent footage on Kapoor-take a look at Anish Kapoor at the Royal Academy!!
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