1.Research Kapoor's work in order to discuss whether it is conceptual art or not. Explain your answer, using a definition of conceptual art.
Conceptual art is art in which the concepts or ideas involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called installations, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions.This method was fundamental to LeWitt's definition of Conceptual art, one of the first to appear in print:
2. Research 3 quite different works by Kapoor from countries outsideNew Zealand
2. Research 3 quite different works by Kapoor from countries outside
Sepia Mutiny (n.d.). Retrieved September 1, 2011. From:
The sculpture is called “Sky Mirror,” and it’s essentially a large, convex piece of highly polished stainless steel, roughly in the shape of a contact lens. From the image at the Times (which is computer generated) as well as images of the same sculpture at other sites, I have a feeling this piece is going to be a bit of a tourist sensation.
This high-profile placing of one of Kapoor’s sculptures is a coup for the artist, but hardly the first time he’s been given pride of place in the western art world. Major pieces of his are on display in the MOMA and the Tate Modern in London, the most famous of which might be Marsyas, a massive construction that filled the Tate’s vast Turbine Hall four years ago. Kapoor is one of the most important and influential practitioners of a movement in abstract sculpture called either minimalism or post-minimalism, depending on how exact we’re being. The artwork itself, which was manufactured in Finland
Yellow, 1999
Royal Academy of Arts , London
This piece of art ‘Yellow’ is a vast (six square meters) fibreglass, monochrome disc where its centre fades deep into the wall, drawing the viewer with it. “Hive” is a steel structure which occupies an entire room and has its own internal space too.It is a installation on a wall,not flat but concave. It is an gigantic construction of art, recessed into a wall, showing Kapoor’s genuine creativity and craftsmanship through its imperceptible achievement. The idea behind this work plays around with the nothingness, “as solidity dissolves imperceptibly into space.” It is about making something void look solid, a quality seen in the work only when viewed up close, defying the rules of perception. The eye plays trick on us and make us stuggle to understand what we make out to be concave and loses itself in this work which seems a flat, yet mysteriously rounded surface.Kapoor has produced work that is both thought provoking and sensational.The sheer scale of the work and its monochrome state fills our view. Kapoor has a deep interest in the use of varying tones of a single colour.
Anish Kapoor, Memory (2008)
Memory (2008) appears before you like an unexploded bomb, rust-coloured and swollen and oddly submissive. Forged from 24 tonnes of Cor-Ten steel, Anish Kapoor’s new site-specific installation at the Deutsche Guggenheim (a site-specific installation strangely set to travel) presents three discrete and non-synchronous faces to museum visitors: the first snub-nosed and sheer; the second conical and rocket-shaped; the third a yawning mouth leading into the structure’s interior. Memory the creator, memory the preserver, memory the destroyer.
Frieze (n.d.). Retrieved September 1, 2011. From:
Anish Kapoor ‘The farm’(2003-2009)
This is Anish Kapoor's amazing, 84m-long, twisted red cone,is called “The Farm” (the sculpture is named after its site), is designed to withstand the high winds that blow inland from the Tasman Sea off the northwest coast of New Zealand ’s North Island . The sculpture is fabricated in a custom deep red PVC-coated polyester fabric by Ferrari Textiles supported by two identical matching red structural steel ellipses that weigh 42,750kg each. The fabric alone weighs 7,200kg. 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.It is such an amazing work that the scale and relationship to the surrounding landscape is so well balanced.
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Fabric Architecture (n.d.). retrieved September 1, 2011. From:
4. Where is the Kapoor's work in New Zealand
As previously stated, the work is located in
5. Comment on which work by Kapoor is your favourite, and explain why. Are you personally attracted more by the ideas or the aesthetics of the work?
My favourite piece of his work is the “Sky Mirror” and a related piece now installed at Millenium Park in Chicago called “Cloud Gate” is the way they present a kind of prism through which to view the world. They are solid, stainless steel, and point at the monumental architecture around themselves — and in that sense they are completely of a piece with the modern American city. But in that they have the general look of liquids, they resist the sense of fixity of massive public sculptures, which are sometimes more in the vein of decorative buildings than art objects that inspire contemplation. The reflection is taking two different forms but the truth is they are still one image.The mirror is gigantic and the reflects show the larger image than it usual.When I looked at it it tells me how massive the world is.The hectic life,reality and time is something we cant dogde.Mirror is something that is reminding us what we doing everyday and watching the world and also the world is watching you at the same time.We all look at the mirror everyday ,trying to make things better than usual,just like the sky mirror is conveying the message that anything could happen when our life is upside down.
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