[Daniel Silk]

WATCH the BBC news report here - news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8268018.stm

"The sculptor and former Turner prize winner, Anish Kapoor is the first living artist to be given a solo show at the Royal Academy in London."

[Daniel Silk]

Anish Kapoor at the Royal Academy of Arts

[Daniel Silk]

Anish Kapoor: Memory at Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin

[john1539]

Hi,
I saw the exhibition at Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin and it was great!
The Guggenheim released an edition: very nice scultpure

www.deutsche-guggenheim-berlin.de/e/ausstellungen-anishkapoor03.php

Enjoy;)

[Rsyok]

Apologies a bit establishment but the Royal Academy have an Anish Kapoor ltd edition print signed and numbered.

www.royalacademy.org.uk/anish-kapoor-124/anish-kapoor-836/product.html?LproductId=836

If you split out the hardback book its only £30 for the print, be warned though the paper quality is pretty weak in contrast to the book which is top notch.

[Young Squire]

I am not really sure how these pieces to translate onto a poster?

Seeing these images from one angle or in one point in time seems contrary to their point?

[Rsyok]

print size is 235x275

The book(and I presume show) is a retrospective showing work from mid 80' to current pieces.

[remirough]

nice...

[gozgoz]

what is that pic?

[Rsyok]

The pic is of the print :
"a detail of Greyman Cries, Shaman Dies, Billowing Smoke, Beauty Evoked, 2008-2009, signed and numbered by the artist."

or in less poetic terms random computer controlled cement plops.

[snausages]

Heads up Londoners
www.phaidon.com/retail-stores/

[hanky]

Has it gone now as I can only find
The catalogue contains 2 posters (54 x 45cms) of the exhibition works Svayambh, 2007 and Shooting into the Corner, 2008-2009

[pezlow]

I bought one a month or so ago. The book's great, the print is OK but overall a nice little pick-up from a genuine legend

[speebe]

Dec 9, 2009 22:46:40 GMT 1 hanky said:

Has it gone now as I can only find
The catalogue contains 2 posters (54 x 45cms) of the exhibition works Svayambh, 2007 and Shooting into the Corner, 2008-2009

Think they've long gone.
I popped in Sat... the show took me back to my first self directed gallery visit as a student to see Kapoor in 1992... Got a real indepth look at the show thanks to Lucy, who co-ordinated the show. Had a peek at the maquettes, installation process etc too. Outstanding.

[chester]

Hi does anyone have the ISBN for this book. Can't believe I missed buying it! I might try to find it online. cheers

[chester]

Hi does anyone have a copy of the Royal Academy Anish Kapoor book with print. The print was titled 'a detail of Greyman Cries, Shaman Dies, Billowing Smoke, Beauty Evoked, 2008-2009' from an edition of 500. I managed to miss buying one at the exhibition but if anyone wanted to sell then please let me know. Please message me if you are interested.

[Deleted]

can't help you with your search but I would suggest you delete your mail adress.. I once did the same, which resulted in a sh+tload of SPAM...

just a tip..

good luck on your search! Anish Kapoor is one of the big ones..

[chester]

cheers

[Daniel Silk]

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8597069.stm

"Kapoor designs 2012 Orbit tower
A spiralling sculpture designed by Turner Prize-winning artist Anish Kapoor has been chosen as the monument to mark the London 2012 Olympic Games.
The 115m tall piece, named the ArcelorMittal Orbit, will be placed in the Olympic Park and will be 22m higher than New York's Statue of Liberty."

[Daniel Silk]

[Daniel Silk]

Hmmmmm I don't like it Looks more like some sort of roller coaster or theme park ride than an artistic sculpture.

[walshy]

I quite like it, im sure it will be impressive to see in person

[Daniel Silk]

I wonder if it might look better with it covered like his Cloud Gate piece

[Daniel Silk]

WATCH news report here - news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8597497.stm?ls

[Winter]

Prefer a lot of his other work

[afroken]

Politicians chose establishment artist shock!

With all the amazing choices they had, this is a cop out. Only Gormley would have been a bigger cop out. Love 'em both but it would have been nice to have something a little more risky going up.

[jakek]

Mar 31, 2010 20:43:11 GMT 1 afroken said:

Politicians chose establishment artist shock!

With all the amazing choices they had, this is a cop out. Only Gormley would have been a bigger cop out. Love 'em both but it would have been nice to have something a little more risky going up.

There will be enough of a public uproar when the daily mail start talking about how much this cost, and at least those that commissioned it have a reputation to fall back on to justify the spend.

If anyone less established was given a huge budget and blank canvas then the furore would be so much worse.

I don't know if it means i'm boring, conformist and establishment but i would actually have preferred a Gormley. I'm not a big fan of this from the images here - and while some of the fly through shots look impressive they're not going to be views most people see.

Is there a gallery somewhere showing other submissions or was this always going to a Kapoor piece?

[afroken]

That's a fair point but public art seems to be going the same way as architecture with Norman Foster designing everything and no-one else getting a look in. These people are almost court artists / architects to the Labour 'empire'.

This is one of the other entries:



This is Paul Fryer's, which I particularly liked:



Can't find the other two entries.

[Winter]

Having had a chance to watch the clips I think this looks pretty cool. Very different at least

[rsj]

I respect Anish Kapoor but Carlo Ratti's "The Cloud" would have been a lot more special IMHO.

BBC report last November here:
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8350770.stm