New Anish Kapour Peice at the Tate

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It is 155m( i think thats right?)
, that occupies all of the grand turbine hall in the tate modern. Complete with three long tube like things going into a large empty central empty tent like thing. Its made of flesh coloured PVC. You can see it starting tomorrow. The Gaurdian Critic thinks its sexy. Discuss this or other works by Anish Kapour

― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 21:29 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,807082,00.html

its also called Marsyas, after the satyr flayed alive by apollo. Kapour has spoken of being influced by the 1576 titian painting The FLaying of Marsyas:

― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 21:31 (twenty-three years ago)

beautiful...the colours of autumn.

― Ashley Andel, Thursday, 10 October 2002 00:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I popped in to see it yesterday. It's vast and awesome, though I wouldn't say sexy. I say eardum, my brother says colon: clearly something membrane-like (membranous?) about it. It seems to hum.

I had missed all the coverage of it (aside from my my mother waking my hungover self up at 7.30 am yesterday saying "go to the Tate and see that big red ... errr... thing") so when I wandered into the Turbine Hall it came as something of a surprise.

London is completely popping with high-qual art shows right now. Yesterday: Kapoor, Steve McQueen at the gutted Lumiere, Fiona Banner at the Frith St., all fantastic in their way. Saturday: Steven Willatts at Victoria Miro: methodical madness, classic pop-art-pop by John Strutton at Nylon (and great obscuro madness by Joey Kotting at Mobile Home over the road), Lars Arrenhius's A-Z cartoons at Peer... and several more quite fantastic things I can't remember the names of at the moment.

The Gary Hume was pretty good too.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 10 October 2002 08:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I plan to go to see both this and the Barnett Newman show as soon as I can, maybe this weekend.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 11 October 2002 11:33 (twenty-three years ago)

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