Week 4- Anish Kapoor

Celebrated for his gigantic, stainless steel 'Cloud Gate' sculpture in Chicago’s Millennium Park, Anish Kapoor is changing the cultural environment with his public works.








1.Research Kapoor's work in order to discuss the ideas behind 3 quite different works from countries outside New Zealand.

1. Memory (2008) 2. Cloud Gate (2004) 3. Yellow (1999)

2.Discuss the large scale site specific work that has been installed on a private site in New Zealand.

"The farm" is an installation and It sustains wind and wind and communication whith viewers through it. It is Kapoor’s recent installation and his first sculpture in outside. It looks like a trumpet and red long shape.


3. Where is the Kapoor's work in New Zealand? What are its form and materials? What are the ideas behind the work?

"The farm" was installed in Kaipara Bay north of Auckland. The work was made with red PVC-coated polyester fabric and steel ellipses in collaboration. It is so big, so wide landscape can be art space and so beautiful area and if viewers are at inside of the work, they can have various sight.
I think It was made as purpose that it can give the beautiful landscape to viewers through the work with withstand wind.

4. Comment on which work by Kapoor is your favourite, and why.





"Cloud Gate on the AT&T Plaza"

Cloud Gate is British artist Anish Kapoor's first public outdoor work installed in the United States. The 110-ton elliptical sculpture is forged of a seamless series of highly polished stainless steel plates, which reflect the city's famous skyline and the clouds above. A 12-foot-high arch provides a "gate" to the concave chamber beneath the sculpture, inviting visitors to touch its mirror-like surface and see their image reflected back from a variety of perspectives.
Inspired by liquid mercury, the sculpture is among the largest of its kind in the world, measuring 66-feet long by 33-feet high. Cloud Gate sits upon the At&T Plaza, which was made possible by a gift from AT&T.
What I wanted to do in Millennium Park is make something that would engage the Chicago skyline…so that one will see the clouds kind of floating in, with those very tall buildings reflected in the work. And then, since it is in the form of a gate, the participant, the viewer, will be able to enter into this very deep chamber that does, in a way, the same thing to one's reflection as the exterior of the piece is doing to the reflection of the city around.
-Anish Kapoor
(http://www.millenniumpark.org/artandarchitecture/cloud_gate.html)

I really like this work because my major is interior and architecture design in korea. so I am interested about installation. When i saw his work at first time, I shouted because I was amazing and I Really like huge special design and his work can reflect of sky and buildings so it is beautiful things to me, of course I am sure that many people which visit his work's area. so it is my favorite work of Anish Kapoor and I wanna visit to Millennium Park I really hope that !!!!

Youtube has some excellent footage on Kapoor-take a look at Anish Kapoor at the Royal Academy!!