The Anish Kapoor Thread

Man deserves his own thread even though references to him are scattered liberally around ilx. I've been a total stan since (at least) the Turner Prize and was so pleased I made the effort to queue for his blockbuster show at the RA. Show your love (or disdain) here.

When I Am Pregnant
http://gregcookland.com/journal/uploaded_images/picKapoorWhenIamPregnant-709817.jpg

"The Farm"
http://www.ifaipublications.com/iaa/repository/8/3332/large_1407b.jpg

Shooting into the corner (detail)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2658/4133239353_8f011d07be_b.jpg

Cloud Gate
http://www.artasauthority.com/chicago/Anish%20Kapoor3.jpg

Coming soon to Middlesbrough - Temenos
http://www.pancrack.tv/images/newspics/temenos_470_470x353.jpg

Yeah that RA exhibition was almost entirely wonderful, especially the cannon and the giant block of wax on rails. They presumably paid him a hell of a lot of money to completely trash the Royal Academy.

Really loved this as well, you could get totally lost in it:

http://www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/uploads/image/anish_kapoor_s_yellow__ra_1040.jpg

That was fantastic and held it's own against the cannon going off next door.

My 2nd fave Tate Mod installation:

http://www.berkshirefinearts.com/uploadedImages/articles/702_Marsyas-2202-2003895934.jpg

It was my favourite (with The Weather Project a close second).
There are some huge downloadable Kapoor images here (including a great one Marsyas).
http://www.brightonfestival.org/press_images/press_images1.aspx

Going to see this tomorrow daytime. Reckon there'll be a long wait?

I only queued 20 minutes mid-afternoon and it wasn't too busy inside.

I also loved the mirrors there - and here's the man himself standing in front of one looking very pleased with himself.
http://www3.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Anish+Kapoor+Uses+Wax+Canon+Create+LAtest+_MTAP-NN-SEl.jpg
I could have watched people going up to the mirrors all day.

i like the bean and the thing near brighton which was also shiny, am completely meh about the canon. but lol, femidom.

he looked about 15 in the Imagine show, those clips of him in his first studio.

his working is mostly pretty amazing but in order to love it i'd have to forget how completely smug and annoying i find him and, somehow, i just can't do that.

Insanely crowded at the RA, Ava enjoyed it though - lots of questions afterwards.

Thought I'd chuck in a couple of my own pix...

The Tall Tree and The Eye:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2599/3987825503_d60174f460.jpg

From inside The Bean:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3148/2568034577_6eb5b28445.jpg

oddly in that Imagine documentary he said he was using welders from the shipyards to build the one piece because they could do the curves (the yellow thing above) and later that he was using sailmakers for another piece as they had the experience of working with large sheets of fabric under tension (the farm). different nautical skills, different parts of the world.

tall tree and the eye = everyone's first raytrace scene

xp
I really want to take the kids but the thought of middle of London before xmas+weekend crush+one of them falling into the wax means I probably won't.

Nearly forgot one of my favs.
http://egghouseart.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/anish1.jpg

Another one at the RA.
http://static.royalacademy.org.uk/images/originals/morgan2-5502.jpg

Okay, I walk past this pretty much every day. I am an idiot for not having passed courtyard's threshold yet.

loved the RA exo - wasn't so crowded when i went but i went in the daytime. the headfuckery of the mirrors exhibit was probably my favourite - was pretty amusing watching loads of people stand there watching that barely-moving block of wax too. made me want to climb into and under everything! people seemed to reacting to it w/a really contagious excitement and delight that was v heartening to see at a contemporary art exhibition

http://static.royalacademy.org.uk/images/originals/morgan2-5502.jpg

Can I just mention that this one totally fucked with my sense of spacial awareness when walking around it the first time? Like, "how can it physically do this?"

Lex is right about that sense of popular excitement - the Cildo Mereiles at the Tate Modern last year got a similar response.