Get ready for the next edition of this annual art challenge, opening mid-May. After local act Christian Boltanski, Bombay born London artist Anish Kapoor is the next artist commissioned to respond to the monumental proportions of the Grand Palais’ enormous nave. He’s planning to “drench us in colour”. Listen to Kapoor talk about the project [...] [...]
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For its fourth edition – after commissions by Anselm Kiefer, Richard Serra and Christian Boltanski earlier this year – Monumenta invites UK artist Anish Kapoor to invest the 13,500 m2 nave of the Grand Palais. Kapoor proved his capacity to respond to that sort of scale back in 2002, producing a magnificent monumental sculpture for [...] [...] A powerful installation ‘Personnes’ (People) from Christian Boltanski at the Grand Palais for the annual Monumenta program. At the entry to the exhibition stands a sad and anonymous wall of rusting lockers; once past these and into the Grand Palais’ huge, chilly space you are confronted with frighteningly bureaucratic arrangements, in perfectly aligned squares, of [...] [...] |
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