*레드 이너스페이스 [ anish kapoor ] leviathan

빨간알약을 먹겠습니까?
파란알약을 먹겠습니까?
수직과 수평이 없는 빨간빛으로 가득한 가상의 공간,
거대한 4개의 벌룬이 서있는 현실,
우리가 실제로 자각해야 하는 것은
외부의 형태(커다른 볼륨감에 압도당해 공간의
진정성을 보지 못하게 만드는 장치) 가 아니고
내부의 환상적이며 드라마틱한 공간이다.

디자이너의 의도처럼 우리가 경험하지 못했던
붉은 빛으로 가득한 내부는
물리적인 치수와 방향감각을 마비시켜
중력의 공간을 무중력상태로 변화시킨다.
벽은 천장이고 수직은 수평이고 위와 아래가 없어진다.

우리가 평소에 접하지 못하는 미지의 공간에 대한
체험은 우리의 안목을 조금씩 높여주며
디자인을 새로운 시각으로 볼 수 있도록
인도해 준다.


each year the french ministry of culture and communication invites a leading artist to create a work that responds to the exceptional
architectural space of the grand palais in paris. the sheer monumental scale of the building provided the inspiration for a big idea: monumenta.
this year, indian-born, british-based artist anish kapoor created a temporary, site-specific installation inside the nave of the glass-domed hall.
the space was originally unveiled at the 1900 universal exhibition.
for its fourth edition, after guest artists anselm kiefer, richard serra and christian boltanski, it has been the turn of anish kapoor to meet the
challenge with a brand new work for the 13,500 m2 space.

'it has been a slow process.
it seems to me that I've been working on it since almost 20 years.
now it is here. we did it.'
says anish kapoor in an interview with designboom.
'the sculpture is a total immersion in an unexplored physical and mental dimension. once you are inside,
in the giant 4-armed balloon, the involuted form  reminds you of an organic outer space and inner self at
the same time -- but when you travel outside of it (once you are back in the space of the grand palais),
I hope the viewer has another encounter with the piece and with the luminosity thrown down by the glass roof.'

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'it is a building of extraordinary scale. the difficulty of the space is its scale - when you are inside and enclosed, it’s almost bigger

than being outside! somehow one has to deal with this volume, which is both horizontal and vertical. the verticality is the problem,

and the light is what makes the verticality a challenge.'

anish kapoor

I think there is no such thing as an innocent viewer. all viewing, all looking comes with complications, comes with previous histories,

a more or less real past. abstract art and sculpture in particular, has to deal with this idea that the viewer comes with his body, and

of course memory. memory and body come together in the act of looking. I’m really interested in what happens to meaning in that process:

as memory and body walk through, take the passage through any given work, something happens, something changes.'

anish kapoor

anish kapoor's artwork celebrates neither permanence nor eternity, but instead the transitive, fugitive nature of instants.

'it is a single object, a single shape, a single colour. the dense red reminds us of the colours we see in our eyes at night -

unstable and monochrome - red creates much more sombre shadows, psychologically and physically, than black or blue.'

the grand palais is one of those remarkable spaces in the world, a vast volume full of light, and has its own beauty. to make a work in it,

one has to deal with all of that, especially the light. I want the viewer to have a moment of shock, aesthetically but also physically, so that

when you enter the nave you raise your eyes and say: ‘wow! could it be like that!’

'each artwork is above all an event'.

with this exhibition, he calls for museums to close for a day in protest at detention of artist ai weiwei in china.
'as a colleague – I don't know him personally – I feel that as artists we have a communal voice and it's important that we stick together,
that we have a sense of solidarity with each other,' anish kapoor said.
'it would be nice to see the art world come together a little more.
perhaps all museums and galleries should be closed for a day across the world.
I think some such campaign needs to form itself.'

the event is an initiative of the french ministry of culture and communication (direction générale de la création artistique) and is
co-produced by the centre national des arts plastiques (cnap), the grand palais and the réunion des musées nationaux.
commissioner: jean de loisy


from  designboom