Find your inner child with Anish Kapoor
I have just been to this show. I feel extatic, transcended, I danse on the tip of my toes with happiness. I have spent time in a land of giants, in the Kapoor 5th dimension. Remember this amazing sculpture?
I get the museum book out of my bag. I have been looking forward to this. The pictures are ever so splendid. But the text, gosh! ever so boring! Every single millimeter has to be understood. A grain of dust would have to eb analysed. Ethnography, authenticity, connections, metonimy, onthology, internationalism, pointillisme… See what I mean?
As for Pop Life, I feel a whole side of it is completely forgotten. Or ignored. The impact on the public. Oh the authors do mention, as if surprised, how normal people always clap aloud to Anish Kapoor’s exhibitions.
So I will not discuss the artist’s work on the object limits, how these materialise in the room or sometimes dematerialise, playing with invisibility and transparence. Neither will I tell you in length of his use of monochromy, of pigment sculpting, of his twisting of angles, his theme of instability of the physical world.
I can only encourage to take your kids there. These wax sculptures, that remind me of a glossy play-do, that you are just dying to touch, pulverised with a cannon through doors and taking their shape at the same time… Well, Roger Rabbit would never have dreamt of a better framing! Looks right out a Warner cartoon. These improbable shapes out of pigments seem to balance out of thin air and it’s difficult not to blow on them (you’ll be told off) to see if they just fly apart in a firework of pop colours. They’re like sophisticated sand castles. Shapes take posession of walls, rounding them or swallowing them, as if you were in a sci-fi adventure. Oh, and this huge syphon, rust coloured? You almost expect it to be a secret spaceship.
The funniest place? The mirror room - no adult is more than 5-year-old. They dance, jump, slide aside and back, run to their friends “Come and see this!”. One can slim, enlarge, reverse, loose, recreate onself to infinity.

Any work of art, all in all, is part of the artist and part of the public projection of themselves…
Anish Kapoor
Royal Academy of Art
Burlington House
Piccadilly
London W1J 0BD
£12
4 Responses to “Find your inner child with Anish Kapoor ”
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Tu es dure avec l’assommoir de Zola ! Il ne m’avait pas paru assommant !
Même problème avec la littérature, les oeuvres sont épluchées sous toutes les coutures. Idem pour les albums pour enfants : on m’a infligé une conférence de 3 heures sur Claude Ponti… Ses albums y ont été disséqués phrase par phrase… J’aime beaucoup Ponti et je suis sûre qu’on lui a prêté des intentions qu’il n’avait même pas pas.
Je suis d’accord avec toi, le plaisir d’abord !













Tu sais toujours trouver les bons mots ! et là, je pense que même les plus “farouches” s’empresseraient d’aller faire un tour à cette exposition “enchantée”…