Anish Kapoor's Marsyas
Cloudgate, the Anish Kapoor sculpture in the newly completed Milennium Park in Chicago, has been a tremendous hit with critics and the public. What else has the Bombay-born, London-based artist done?
Here are a couple of photos courtesy of Injung Hong of a piece he did for an exhibition at Tate Modern in London. He calls it Marsyas, after a satyr who challenged the god Apollo to a lute competition. The loser was flaided alive. Yes, only the ancient Greeks could turn beauty into something so grisly and dark. Hint: it wasn't Apollo.
Kapoor has done the reverse taking red PVC and making it sing. Kapoor explained that he wanted to exploit the incredible height of the turbine hall. He accomplishes this by emphasizing its horizontality and sweeping an ellipse around an axis to make a tapered cone. The curves nicely contrast with the boxy container that is the hall. Marsyas soars. It's as sexy and provocative as Cloudgate but in a completely different manner. Enjoy!
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