BEAUTY: Installation--Anish Kapoor

Artist Anish Kapoor's latest project is an ominous black water funnel for the 2014-2015 Kochi Biennale in India. It looks like a scene from the novel HOUSE OF LEAVES: a portal to some other dimension has unexpectedly opened up in this solid floor...and authorities have put up a railing to keep curious on-lookers from falling in!

I really enjoyed this interview, filmed by the Kochi Biennale Foundation, and found what Kapoor was saying quite profound.

http://anishkapoor.com/
http://kochimuzirisbiennale.org/

BEAUTY: Sculpture--Anish Kapoor

"Svayambh," a Sanskrit word meaning "self-creating" or "self-generating" was a monumental site specific kinetic sculpture by British sculptor-architect (and Turner Prize winner) Anish Kapoor (he created the "Cloud Gate" in Chicago's Millennium Park). Staged at the Royal Academy of Art in London as part of a solo exhibition (Kapoor is the only living artist ever to have had a solo show at the Academy), this "paint train" was a 30-ton block of wax, crimson paint, and Vaseline gliding painfully slowly on a track through five galleries, squeezing and squishing its way through the grand, neo-classical archways of the Royal Academy.



http://www.anishkapoor.com/