{"id":13628,"date":"2014-07-03T13:58:32","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T12:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centmagazine.co.uk\/?p=13628"},"modified":"2014-07-03T13:58:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T12:58:32","slug":"mirror-mirror-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/?p=13628","title":{"rendered":"Mirror: Mirror Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the theme of this month is Mirror we at .Cent took a look at mirrored art and their creators.<\/p>\n

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Sculpture 80 Balls Stainless steel, Indian artist Anish Kapoor, and located at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Anish Kapoor is one of the most influential sculptors of his generation. Perhaps most famous for public sculptures that are both adventures in form and feats of engineering, he manoeuvres between vastly different scales, across numerous series of work. Immense PVC skins, stretched or deflated; concave or convex mirrors whose reflections attract and swallow the viewer; recesses carved in stone and pigmented so as to disappear: these voids and protrusions summon up deep-felt metaphysical polarities of presence and absence, concealment and revelation.\u00a0\"Anish<\/a><\/p>\n

Anish Kapoor, Turning the World Upside Down III, 1996, Deutsche Bank Collection Courtesy of the artist and Lisson Gallery, Photo: John Riddy, London \u00a9 Anish Kapoor<\/p>\n

Forms turn themselves inside out, womb-like, and materials are not painted but impregnated with colour, as if to negate the idea of an outer surface, inviting the viewer to the inner reaches of the imagination. Kapoor\u2019s geometric forms from the early 1980s, for example, rise up from the floor and appear to be made of pure pigment, while the viscous, blood-red wax sculptures from the last ten years \u2013 kinetic and self-generating \u2013 ravage their own surfaces and explode the quiet of the gallery environment. There are resonances with mythologies of the ancient world \u2013 Indian, Egyptian, Greek and Roman \u2013 and with modern times, where 20th century events loom large.<\/p>\n

In ‘Vestige’ , artist Rob Mulholland<\/a> created\u00a0figures with mirrored stainless steel and has designed similar installations for the forest trail around Loch Ard in David Marshall Lodge near Loch Lomondare.
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