Mirrors and water, if present at Castle Versailles , but also blocks of stone and a huge rusted steel trunk resting on The pitch Briton Anish Kapoor plays with the chaos and sexuality in this place of power and desire
Specialist giant installations such as the “Leviathan” under the glass roof of the Grand Palais in 2011, the artist. also invested the room the Tennis with a spectacular work: a cannon that shoots blood red wax cylinders in a corner. Anish Kapoor was quickly dismissed the idea of exhibiting his work in the salons of Versailles as did other guest artists, including Jeff Koons. Soon, too, he chose the Jeu de Paume and the Green Carpet, this lawn parterre located in the greater perspective of the castle says Alfred Pacquement, curator of the exhibition (June 9 to November 1). “He did not like decor of Versailles.”
In the central axis, the artist of Indian origin has lined up four of the six works presented: on the terraces one of his great concave mirrors bifaces become her trademark. Further, a “mirror-radar” reflecting the sky.
Then, a few dozen meters from the golden statues of Latona fountain recently restored, stands the disturbing opening of a long tunnel rusted steel (60 m long). A play called “Dirty Corner,” “very sexual” admits Anish Kapoor, who imagines “a woman from another civilization.” The work has also been renamed “Vagina Queen” by her fans and detractors. This mistake, which seems to suck the castle itself is surrounded by excavations and huge boulders (up to 25 tons), some painted red blood. “The dark cavity is a very present theme in the work of Kapoor, he played the counter to the prospect, shoved his scheduling” but taking into account the scale of this huge place, says Alfred Pacquement. “What interests him is chaos hidden by Le Nôtre, one before and the one after that,” added Catherine Pégard, President of the Public Establishment of Versailles. “What lies beneath the surface of this scheduling” is also, according to Kapoor, revealed that the fourth embodiment, the “Vortex”, a circular pool at the foot of the Grand Canal running subsurface blackish water whose center opens to the depths.
‘A very precise disorder’
Sexual, intervention sculptor at Jeu de Paume is also, starting with its title “Shooting in the corners.” “I wanted to open a dialogue between my work and the place,” says Kapoor, who evokes “the corner as a symbol of the female sex” and the canon “eminently phallic”. “It’s a very masculine place, there is no female presence,” he said about this historical monument, noting that the angle of the shot gun is the same as the arm of the statue of Jean Sylvain Bailly, president of the Third Estate and first to take the oath.
“The high quality of the project is that it was conceived and designed in relation to Versailles,” said Alfred Pacquement that evokes “determination” of the sculptor, his “messy very accurate.”
Anish Kapoor (61) designed a sculpture placed last as a UFO in the middle of a grove: a huge black cube crossed by red hoses with holes very different sizes, the largest occupying an entire face of the work. Inside the cube, open to the public, gives the sensation of being in the heart of a gigantic living being. The project Anish Kapoor at Versailles was one of the most complex that the teams have had to manage since the field gives carte blanche to contemporary artist. “An important project,” said Alfred Pacquement soberly. As for cost, the direction of Versailles remains discreet.
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