visitors who went to see ascension, anish kapoor’s installation in basilica di san giorgio in venice were not impressed with the experience. supposedly one of the biennale’s highlights, the work was meant to be a whisp of smoke raising to the ceiling and becoming a seemingly solid pillar, playing on the material/immaterial theme. the first visitors claimed that the smoke column failed to materialize.
the officials and kapoor himself argued that there is a lot of subtlety involved and that the mechanism is working fine now.
to get an idea of how the smoke column was supposed to materialize, check out the video below.
i like it but i understand why people think it may have not worked.
what do you think: win or fail?
4 comments
Tudor says:
Jun 20, 2011
Seen and unseen where the form loses in itself. Definitely an Anish Kapoor idea. From the video it looks like he got it. I would think it did not work all the time and I presume, that’s why some people were disappointed.
little-aesthete says:
Jun 20, 2011
it’s unexpected for him to have a failure, since it was not the first time he showed this piece. i wonder if it was his own team or an italian team who put together the whole thing…
Andreea Breazu says:
Jun 20, 2011
I kinda like it, although I’ve seen it before: http://nedkahn.com/fog.html#Duales take a look at the Duales Systems Pavilion video
little-aesthete says:
Jun 20, 2011
yes, i know. i’ve just commented on it and said that a failure at this point is so much more unexpected! 🙂