After Jeff Koons and Takashi Murakami, it’s the turn of the Anglo-Indian artist Anish Kapoor cause controversy unprecedented in Versailles. Anish Kapoor, one of the biggest names in contemporary art, unveiled Friday morning six facilities, including several unpublished as Dirty Corner and Descension, in the castle and its gardens. The artist plays with the environment and the material to give life to his works. Sculptures with curved shapes, with sober colors, but intense … And especially the monumental formats. Among these creations, one of them was particularly disconcerted visitors: Dirty Corner , installed just in front of the castle, also described as the “queen’s vagina which takes power “by Kapoor. The sculpture, which looks like a steel tunnel ear-shaped, has yet, at first glance, no sexual significance. “At first, I thought that this was because the work fills space, but ultimately, I do not understand what this creation is here. I came to see the castle and the works of the old regime, not that kind of strange system, “said a tourist. For the artist, “this agitation has nothing to do with my work, it concerns an old debate in France about the history and modernity”. In 2011, Kapoor had already marked minds with its installation Leviathan during the Monumenta exhibition at the Grand Palais. An event that attracted nearly 300,000 visitors. A record.
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