Week 4 - Anish Kapoor

'Cloud Gate' (04-06)

This sculpture is located in Chicago, and influenced by the material of liquid mercury. It's made out of stainless steel and constructed together to create its smooth texture. It's unique bean shape reflects and at the same time, distorts the setting around it. The sculpture creates many reflections as it is in a concave shape, creating funky reflections of objects nearby.

'Sky Mirror' (01-06)

Originally located outside a theatre in Wellington Circus, Nottingham. This sculpture is also made out of six-metres wide concave plate of stainless steel, that has been polished. It weighs about ten tonnes and positioned on an angle facing the sky (hence the name, sky mirror). It was manufactured in Finland. It reflects its surroundings and the environment.

'Svayambh'

This moving sculpture is made out of red wax, in a form of a giant block that is installed between the doorways in the gallery. It is design to push and squeeze its way through the doorways as it slowly moves on a set of tracks, leaving a trail behind on the ground. This effect is created on purpose to illustrate 'bleeding walls'.

'The Farm' is a sculpture by Kapoor, that stretches 1000 acres across a farm site in Kaipara Bay, New Zealand. It is designed to stand strong against winds which blow from the North. The ellipses go both directions, horizontal and vertical. It is constructed to resist strong winds. The sculpture also enhance the view of the Kaipara Harbor on the vertical ellipse, while also emphasizing the beautiful scenery of the hills of the farm from the horizontal ellipse.

Located in Kaipara Bay, north of New Zealand. It sits in between the hillside and valleys of the farm, and an amazing view of the Harbor. The sculpture was constructed with fabric, combined with PVC and steel.

My favourite would be the Svayambh. I think it is a very creative work of Kapoor's, clever use of materials and it is designed to be in a confined space. the Svayambh is very quirky and strange in a way, but Kapoor's style of mixing architecture and art is very authentic. I really like how his designs are spatial, yet it also has aesthetic elements to it.