2009 (10-21) Guggenheim Museum; 50th Anniversary; Free Day; Memory by Anish Kapoor, originally uploaded by straatis
I went to the Guggenheim yesterday to see Kandinsky (which is worth the price of admission) and came across Anish Kapoor’s work Memory – it is amazing. A light-tight cor-ten steel amorphous shape, where you move around and can peer into, is contained in a gallery off the main spiral.
Kapoor, along with Antony Gormley (especially Blind Light and Allotment II) and Olafur Eliasson (especially Take Your Time and the Waterfalls series which I have critiqued in the past) are creating works of sculpture, art and architecture which challenge our bodies in space. Their most successful projects, be it The Bean or The Weather Project or the Bean, are successful because they challenge our perceptions of the body in space and at the same time highlight that we are still corporeal agents in a physical world. Which is, more than ever, a needed reminder.
“Antony Gormley: Blind Light” exhibition by scottroberts
Olafur Eliasson’s Waterfalls at PS1
the weather project by *ade
Anish Kapoor Cloud Gate
Check out more Memory photos, but better yet, go to the Guggenheim to see Memory.
