LEVIATHAN
Grand Palais, Paris, 2011
Sculpture and text by Anish Kapoor
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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.
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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.
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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.
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