Anish Kapoor
A couple of weeks ago I dropped into the Anish Kapoor exhibition at the Royal Academy in London, the massive shiny collections of balls in the courtyard convinced me to cough up the slightly over priced entrance fee.
That second one was taken by my other half and if you look close enough you can see her taking it and me taking the same shot with my Holga, which no one will see for a few more months. The infinite reflections of the spheres on each other was quite fine, bringing the clouds down to where you could touch them and making everything seem considerably more complex than it was. Like James Joyce.
It wasn’t the best exhibition of his I’ve seen to be honest, and I’ve no reason to not be honest. But it’s saving grace was this hug block of red wax which almost imperceptibly slid through five galleries, shaping itself as it went. It was monstrous, and sticky, and took about an hour to do a length.
It was rather oppressive, slowly filling the room and encroaching on your space. The whole ‘gallery sculpting the art’ metaphor was quite fun I thought.
There was also a cannon which, every 20 minutes, fired a 50lb block of wax at the wall. Couldn’t quite work out why, but was enjoyable in the same way as watching someone open champagne. Except there was nothing to drink after wards.
Probably worth it if you’re close by or have a student card. Or really love wax.
Anne Staub
I didn’t realise you were based in London. Any, must see, current exhibitions you’ve seen and would recommend? with a little bit less wax?
onetonshadow - Minister of Tees replied
There’s a nice polaroid one near Baker Street, and the Walking in your mind one at the Hayward was ace, but might have finished now. The Wellcome Gallery has a good one on 17thC wax medical figures but the regular exhibition upstairs is just as good anyway. London’s good for all the secret weird bits, like the Huntarian Museum and Sir John Soane’s House mind you, always there, always free, normally quiet.
onetonshadow - Minister of Tees replied
The Polaroid thing is at the Atlas Gallery.
Mel Brackstone
Oooo, there was one of his amazing works at the gallery of modern art here in brisbane recently! Fantastic stuff!
mikoto
what a work of art, crazy!
Pat Duggan
Very Impressive Indeed-
-see reflections,,on these Shiny Balls-And the Jetliner overhead-Imagine it would be nice to See---Cheers!!littlearty
Aaah… Anish Kapoor. One of my fav. sculptor. His bold use of colour is always an inspiration. :) Thanks for sharing.
onetonshadow - Minister of Tees replied
He is a fine fellow, I saw an exhibition at the Hayward a few years back that I thought was better than this. But still pretty fresh.
Paul Vanzella
How incredible is this…. thanks for bringing the images to us!
mingtees
Great shots of the spheres. Almost looks like some of the images people here generate with fractals.
sjem ©
I’m jealous.
onetonshadow - Minister of Tees replied
Of my muscles?
sjem ©
Check this out :
Anish Kapoor is having an artwork installed as part of a residential tower designed by Herzog de Meuron, this is an animation for the building which is really goodly done.
onetonshadow - Minister of Tees replied
The animation is lovely. The idea of an elitist block of super rich fucknuts makes me want to learn how to fly.
Natalie Tyler
Very, very cool. Kudos to the Royal Academy for letting him blast and smear red wax all over their building. That must be hellish to clean off …
onetonshadow - Minister of Tees replied
Yeah I thought that, they rarely go for a ‘resident artist’ feel, but they did here.
Get out the Cif innit.
Anne Staub
Walking in your mind is now finished I’ve just checked, I’ll have a look at the Atlas gallery and the other two you mentioned. Thanks.
I was wondering about the smell of the wax? I can remember the specific smell of a seal stamp wax stick I was given a long time ago. Which was very different to other wax, candles etc…. any smell at the exhibition?
PhotogeniquE IPA
er…..... this is art then? Bit like pickled sharks I guess?
littlearty
Sigh… I’m in New Zealand. Nothing exciting ever happens here. :(
onetonshadow - Minister of Tees replied
No but things look beautiful and the air is probably less cancerous.
Troy Evans
Hey, there’s a tiny plane in that first picture!
Did you mean that?
onetonshadow - Minister of Tees replied
I DID YES.
Cathryn Swanson
Those shiny balls are awesome. Cool stuff.
(I’m with Nat on the clean up, freaks me out slightly and makes my eye twitch, a bit like the Pro Hart carpet ads used to.)
berndt2
I’ve got mixed feelings about the exhibits themselves – but I love your shots!