Anish Kapoor Exhibition.

[DaveK]

Hi Guys,
Here I go again,being provocative but I suspect I may get some support on this subject. Apparently one major gallery in London (whose name I missed, sorry) has accorded the sculptor (?) Anish Kapoor the singular honour of giving over the entire gallery to an exhibition of his 'art'. The only other person to be even considered for this accolade was Henry Moore but he died before it could be implemented.
Mr Kapoor's 'art' consists, from the TV report I saw, of a 5 ton moving block of red wax, an air cannon firing pieces of red wax into a corner of the gallery, and what I can only describe as looking like piles and coils of fossilised dinosaur turds, judging by the size of them. I am open to persuasion that they are art but, to coin a phrase, "not as we know it Jim", so it ain't going to be easy.
Anybody else seen it or got any opinions, supportive or otherwise?
Cheers,

[The Grand Wazoo]

Well, I don't know about wax, but I find these fairly interesting.............

http://www.tate.org.uk/40artists40days/artworks/anish_kapoor/PeterJSchluz-4.jpg


http://www.artdaily.com/imagenes/2008/05/29/Anish-Kapoor-2.jpg


http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_445_124202_anish-kapoor.jpg

[Alex_UK]

Well, I visited the Tate Modern 3 times when Marsyas was in situ - and I loved it - maybe because it could be construed as looking like a speaker? :lol:

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/kapoor/images.htm

Then, there is "Cloud Gate" (the Bean) which I would love to see, but a trip to Chicago is not on the cards any time soon...

http://www.colectiva.tv/wordpress/lang/en-us/tag/anish-kapoor/

I've seen some of his small scale stuff, and nothing comes close - the current show at the Royal Academy (I think) is still something I would like to check out, though.

So sorry Dave, I do think it is "art" - but in the same way that I think a pair o speakers or a turntable can be art...

[Spectral Morn]

Hi Dave

What I have seen here so far I like (Cloud Gate particularly). The thing about art is that everyone will view it differently..beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

I do struggle with the BS element in Art i.e a pile of something and the artist gives an in depth talk about it. I prefer art were there is high quality draftsmanship and craftsmanship and less so the pile of bricks type...but thats just me.

I encountered all this sort of crap when at art college. I was studying silver smithing and jewelery design and I was very into the craft of it and less so the BS element which frankly allowed some fellow students to get good degrees, when their work was poorly executed or had been completed for them by department technicians. I made my own work and even the tools I used to make some of it. I guess I should have done a more industry focused course, but I thought a degree had more value...as things have turned out that was not the case IMHO/E.

I left the college totally disenchanted by it all, and have not done anything much since...what a waste, but it burnt me out.

Regards D S D L

[Dave Cawley]

Wow! I wanna go too!

Dave

[The Vinyl Adventure]

Hi Dave

What I have seen here so far I like (Cloud Gate particularly). The thing about art is that everyone will view it differently..beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

I do struggle with the BS element in Art i.e a pile of something and the artist gives an in depth talk about it. I prefer art were there is high quality draftsmanship and craftsmanship and less so the pile of bricks type...but thats just me.

I encountered all this sort of crap when at art college. I was studying silver smithing and jewelery design and I was very into the craft of it and less so the BS element which frankly allowed some fellow students to get good degrees, when their work was poorly executed or had been completed for them by department technicians. I made my own work and even the tools I used to make some of it. I guess I should have done a more industry focused course, but I thought a degree had more value...as things have turned out that was not the case IMHO/E.

I left the college totally disenchanted by it all, and have not done anything much since...what a waste, but it burnt me out.

Regards D S D L

i know a good few young photographers in my area, all of which have gone to uni, none of which are making any money out of photography... i didnt go to uni and i make at least 65% of my money directly from taking photos and i have only been doing it as a profession for a year.

they have all come out of uni with no idea how to use a camera (literally i was teaching a girl with three full years of photography at uni under her belt, what depth of field is...the mind boggles). then there is a loads of nonsence in thier heads that makes them "too good" for wedding photography, as well as a load of nonsence about "photography is a really hard game to get into". now i wonder where they got that idea from... could it be the teachers who probably failed at a career in it so went on to teaching? probably...
they are also always filled with this idea that there has to be some elaborate story and reasoning behind every image .... the BS element, as you call it

can an image, or form not just be art because it looks nice... well i think it can!!
takes us back to the convos yesterday about your photos quite nicely realy.
i would have been a lot less interested if you had told me you took them because "you felt the subtle interplays of orange light were remincant of £%$*£'s work on his study of angelic form in the £(*$& era" ... toss toss toss :lolsign: .... i fact if you had said something like, i probably would have told you to get your head out your own ass and piss off, bluntly :lolsign:

[Spectral Morn]

Indeed BS

During my degree show I was wandering the display area, and I heard saw these cultured ladies;):lol: Discussing my work. I snuck up behind them and had a listen. The BS was flying "The relationship of that to this of that , the Celtic mystery of that etc" I put may head between the two and said "Its two swans sitting on a nest". They looked horrified "No its not"....the BS stated again....."anyway how would you know young man ?" I looked at both of them and said "Because I made it. Its two swans sitting on a nest no more no less"

They marched off disgusted tutting loudly. It was just what I have said, a broach made of silver capturing a moment between two swans sitting on a nest with the back of the broach jutting out, acting as water which surrounded the bottom and sides. The lack of BS did for me...I would have been better doing an HND...hind sights a wonderful thing.


Regards D S D L

[REM]

Hamish said

i know a good few young photographers in my area, all of which have gone to uni, none of which are making any money out of photography...

A few years ago I read somewhere that there are more people doing photography courses at uni in this country than there are professional photographers in the whole of Europe. No doubt many of them dump the module on "How to run a business" for something a little more glamorous like "The Camera: an abstract tool or an abstraction for tools?"

:lolsign: