Aziz Art May 2016
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Cloud Gate<br />
at the Millennium Park, Chicago<br />
Also in June, Kapoor's Orbit was<br />
announced as the winning proposal<br />
for an artwork for the 2012<br />
Olympic Games. The Greater<br />
London Authority selected<br />
Kapoor's sculpture from a shortlist<br />
of five artists as the permanent<br />
artwork for the Olympic Park. At<br />
115 metres tall, Orbit is the tallest<br />
sculpture in the UK.<br />
Soon to be completed is a granite<br />
monument to commemorate the<br />
British victims<br />
of 9/11 in New York’s Hanover<br />
Square.<br />
When asked if engagement with<br />
people and places is the key to<br />
successful public art, Kapoor said,<br />
“I’m thinking about the mythical<br />
wonders of the world, the Hanging<br />
Gardens of Babylon and the Tower<br />
of Babel. It’s as if the collective will<br />
comes up with something that has<br />
resonance on an individual level<br />
and so becomes mythic. I can claim<br />
to take that as a model for a way of<br />
thinking. <strong>Art</strong> can do it, and I’m<br />
going to have a damn good go. I<br />
want to occupy the territory, but<br />
the territory is an idea and a way of<br />
thinking as much as a context that<br />
generates objects.
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