Anish Kapoor

I am really impressed by the surrealist artist Anish Kapoor. His work is mind bending, and I admire his use of both studio space, and materials. Fascinating. Genius.

Photos courtesy of his website,

http://www.anishkapoor.com/works/index.htm

"The job of an artist, really, is not to make comment. The less intentioned, almost, the better. So I would say an almost playful attitude to the manifestation of objects, the making of the work and so on, to say you know, ‘Actually, the more I free myself as a sculptor, the more able it is to bring up, if you like, these difficult human realities’.

So it’s almost a kind of poetics of opposites. The things that are playful are often not so playful; the things that say they are dark and sombre, often are not so dark and sombre in fact and maybe rather ridiculous because of it. So it’s that subtle jumping from one to the other. Opposites."

"It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere. "

- Anish Kapoor