Contemporary art in Versailles: Olafur Eliasson
ARTinvestment.RU   29 января 2016

Earlier in the palaces and parks of Versailles was exhibited Takashi Murakami, Jeff Koons, Anish Kapoor and other contemporary artists

As a contemporary artist, which will occupy the palaces of Versailles, will be Icelandic-датский the author Olafur Eliasson. Its exposition will be held in luxurious halls of the Palace of Louis XIV and the adjacent parks from June to October of this year. Previously in Versailles exhibited Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami, Joan Vasconcelos, Xavier Waylon and Anish Kapoor. And almost every time the invasion into the Royal chambers kontemporari-арта had provoked protest from the conservative part of the population. There was even a special public funds "defenders of Versailles". However, the decision by the Museum management to keep pace with time remains unchanged — exhibitions of contemporary art by-прежнему are held regularly and are very popular.

the biggest resonance was caused by the latest exhibition — exhibition of Anish Kapoor, and on it — installed in the Park installation "Dirty corner", consisting of iron pipes and piles of stones. To work repeatedly attacked by vandals, protested against it and called sacrilegious (because the artist himself has compared it with the sexual organ of the Queen). All attacks with Anish Kapoor reacted calmly — caused by vandals anti-Semitic graffiti he didn't want to be washed, calling them from now on part of the work.

the Successor of Anish Kapoor — Olafur Eliasson —'t have to worry about whether or not the scandal of his works, shown in Versailles. He considers it very important through the art of polemics, even if it affects whose-то feelings and what-то is perceived in bayonets. On a question, whether he had been thinking to cancel the show after the events around the exhibition, Kapoor, Eliasson said that culture should always go ahead of politics: "Artists and culture generally shape our society. Artists are not populists, they are not in use fears and paranoia. France has always remained firm on issues of freedom of expression".

the artist has the experience of exhibiting their works in classical spaces. The Eliasson exhibition "Baroque, Baroque" was successfully held in the Winter Palace of Prince Eugene of Savoy in Vienna. Versailles, according to the artist, will require even larger-scale works. Eliasson with the team several times came to the Palace of Louis for measurements. Olafur Eliasson is known for his work with water (for example, grandiose installation "new-йоркские waterfalls" 2008-го), so we can expect what-то associated with the Versailles fountains. What happens, we will soon see.

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchin, AI

the Sources are: artnet.com, artinvestment.ru