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Nantes / Musée des beaux-arts

“SVAYAMBH”
Anish Kapoor


Commission Jean de Loisy, artistic consultant for “Estuaire” event

The English artist Anish Kapoor has been invited to create a monumental installation specially designed for Nantes Museum of Art. This unpublished work is made up of a huge, moving red-wax block, slowly going through the museum, from the entry hall to the deep end of the patio, on rails placed at 1,50m high above the ground. This heavy wagon, moving very slowly between the too narrow arches of the patio, rubs off, leaving dramatic scraps of red wax on to the pillars. It is an allegory of memory and history, two themes in the very heart of the museum function.

Anish Kapoor (born in Bombay in 1954) competed for United-Kingdom in Venice in 1990 and won the Turner Prize in 1991. Both painter and sculptor, he uses illusionist properties of colour to give sensuality and ambiguity to his sculptures. He works matter, light, space, using contrasts such as empty-full, male-female, concave-convex, inside-outside, material-immaterial, visible-invisible…This planned ambivalence gives his works, every time more monumental, a quality of mystery and infinity.

anishkapoor.com

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