Sick-bed television was a must, and on good recommendation, and cos I keep finding books with tabs in about him in the library, and his stuff is good, I watched the BBC documentary on Anish Kapoor.
His sculptures are hard to not like I think, obviously large and not particularly narrative theyre just eye candy really, in my opinion. He has a massive team of people working for him, wowee, and a lot of resources and materials at his disposal. Everyone seems to work so hard and maticulously.
Two particular quotes appealed to my working brain: "objects behave in a very similar way, the skin of an object tells you about its history, materialrity, it's physicalness, and the skin is often an illusion" This idea of the objects skin having a narrative and an informative element excites me a little, the idea of it being an illusion also is interesting, the outer physicalness is often different to what is below the surface, the essence and reality of the object is not just about its outer appearance.
"just as you cant make something beautiful, or set out to, you also cant set out to make something spiritual, what you can do, is recognise that it might be there. It normally has to do with not having too much to say, there seems to be space for the viewer, and that seems to be something that we recognise as spiritual, and its all about space."
"the route to meaning might not be direct" His ideal's seem interesting, he's not trying to preach something to everyone or to be loud or give out a particular message, he says he's just creating sculptures that allow for interaction and insight, which I find really interesting, particularly in relation to my work at the moment.
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