Palace of Versailles again, adopts contemporary art. This time — British sculptor of Indian origin, Anish Kapoor. All summer 2015 visitors of the Versailles Palace and Park, designed by landscape architect andré Le nôtre, will be able to appreciate original famous installations sculptor@

Visitors of Versailles will see the duality of the work of the sculptor: the sky and the earth, visible and invisible, external and internal, shadow and light. This universe can be read through experience and imagination. In Versailles the vision of the sculptor meets fantasy, set in stone by history itself. Art objects Kapoor invade strict and well-groomed space — and the regular Park of Versailles loses his balance, changing, moving. Among the exhibits — a huge tumultuous maelstrom (the work of "the Fall", 2015) perfectly round. And on the terraces of the Park there is a sculpture in the form of a large curved mirrors (job C-Curve, 2007), in which the earth is reflected upside down. And of course, not without the famous "Celestial mirror" (2013), which reflects the sun and nebo@

Of all modern artists, ever exhibited in Versailles, Anish Kapoor's first invited inside the legendary hall for ball games, which is connected with one of the pages of the French revolution (June 20, 1789, in this hall, the deputies of the third estate for the first time came out openly against the king swore to adopt the Constitution). For such places Kapoor has prepared one of his most famous works — installation "Shooting into the corner" (2008-2009) with a gun, shooting into the wall with wax. The work, according to the author, represents the "undeclared war": "the Gun and the angle  are two necessary parts of the equation. They need each other. They are like the state and its citizen, as one who loves and the one they love... the Picture  is a witness. This evidence remaining after the massacre".  

As almost always happens with contemporary art exhibitions on the territory of Versailles, without protests, was not. This time they concerned a "Dirty corner" (2011-2015), consisting of large steel pipes and piles of stones. The problem is that many saw that the pipe is shaped like a female sexual organ, Anish Kapoor, in fact, did not deny this. However, defending his conception of the author, the sculptor said his words were misinterpreted and that works a lot of interpretations. Be that as it may, protesting mostly conservatives. However, among them were the mayor of the city Versalia@

Material was prepared by Maria Onuchin, AI

Источники: artdaily.com, bbc.com, telegraph.co.uk, artinvestment.ru