My one second one picture moment with Anish Kapoor.
Photo © Paula Hietaranta
You are in a
womb waiting. It is painfully hot, wet, dark red there. You lose the sense of
time and space. Out, out quickly! Suddenly the rays of sunshine pierce the thick
round walls – and a moment later you are born to a world of fresh air, light
and human voices.
This was my
first impression of Leviathan by Anish Kapoor. But what happened afterwards was even
more astonishing – it created in my mind a whole process about art and life. Is
that the definition of good art - the process it lives in you afterwards, feeds
you, questions you?
When the
Indian-born British artist Anish Kapoor was invited to create an oeuvre to
Monumenta 2011 to the Nave of Grand Palais in Paris, he wanted to make
something gigantic to a gigantic space. It took nine months, the time of human pregnancy, to think
and build this unique work he named as Leviathan, the biblical monster.
And believe me
- it is not just a material piece. There you have an unique possibility to go
to the very essence of being.
Momenta 2011 is
open until 23rd of June. If you cannot go there, go at least to this internet
page to hear the artist to explain his work:
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