Royal Academy of Arts
Anish Kapoor is a international sculptor, born in India, Bombay (Mumbai). Moved to the United Kingdom in the early 1970s whilst working, Anish's main aim to move to London was to study art. He started his first education at the Hornsey College of Art, and later he moved to Chelsea School of Art and Design.
Anish Kapoor nowadays is known as a very creative sculptor and one of the most influential of his generation. His also the winner of the 1991 Turner Prize (Turner Prizes is one of the United Kingston's most publicised art award ceremony's held. It is annual prize presented to a British visual artist that has been a hit over the year, for artist's under the age of 50. Awarding the prize is organised by the Tate Gallery and is also staged at the Tate Britain.)
The reason why the exhibition caught my eye was because, every morning to my journey to uni, I came across posters with
Anish Kapoor's work, and the poster was not all pretty and beautiful or with amazing attractive colours, it was the fact his work looked bold, gruesome and very interesting, so that kept me wondering what his works were actually about. Its like a horror film, you cant
watch it, if you do, you know you will be scared as hell what you still will
watch it. That's how the poster attracted me to go and see his exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts.
The exhibition surveys Kapoor’s career to date showcasing a number of new and previously unseen works, including a select group of Kapoor’s early pigment sculptures, beguiling mirror-polished stainless-steel sculptures and cement sculptures on display for the first time.The exhibition also includes highlights such as
the monumental work Svayambh, the title of which comes from a Sanskrit word meaning ‘self-generated’.
Svayambh is a deep red wax, like a huge block the size of a train even bigger, moving along a set of tracks from one side of the gallery to the other side, a long the tracks Svayambh passes through two doorways, which form and seemingly force the block though their restrictive frames making it leave behind wax.The material, which coats the doorways, is a mix of wax, paint and Vaseline.
Coming to what my thoughts are about
Anish Kapoor after seen his work in person. The posters caught my eye about his work, and that's the main reason I went along to see his exhibition. I was a bit disappointed to the fact that his work didn't look as good as it seemed on the posters. especially his ' Shooting into the Corner Work' I was so excited about his that main work of his, came to the disappointment that it didn't look as real and gruesome as I through it would. But I have to give him the credit that it was a very good piece of art work.
'Shooting into the Corner'
The Shooting into the Corner of
Anish Kooper - every 20minutes a cannon of red wax each weighing nearly up to twenty pounds, is loaded in to the canon and is then
shoot out to the to the other rooms corner. Each cannon of red wax travels at fifty miles per hour. The whole concept behind this art work is that takes place in a space set apart from each other, rather like a boxing ring, a ritual arena in which a symbolic act of violence is allowed to occur.
Other works of Anish Kooper
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Yellow (1999)'
'When I am Pregnant (1992)'
'Non-Objects' 'Hive'
'Hive'
'Slug'
