Anish Kapoor’s Memory at Guggenheim Museum
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| Anish Kapoor (Indian, b. 1952). Memory (2008). Cor-Ten steel. 14.5 x 8.97 x 4.48 m (47.57 x 29.43 x 14.7 ft.). Commissioned by Deutsche Bank AG in consultation with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation for the Deutsche Guggenheim. Installation view: Anish Kapoor: Memory, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, November 30, 2008-February 1, 2009. Photo: Mathias Schormann. © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York. |
By STAN PARCHIN
August 3, 2009
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum continues to celebrate its 50th anniversary with Memory (2008), a site-specific installation by sculptor Anish Kapoor (b. 1954). Part of the Deutsche Bank Series, Memory is on display from October 21, 2009 to March 28, 2010.
Made of 154 Cor-Ten steel tiles, Memory weighs 24 tons and measures 14.5 x 8.97 x 4.48 meters. Kapoor's title is an allusion to how one encounters the foreboding industrial sculpture. It nearly fills the annex gallery space it occupies and it can never be seen in its entirety. The artist's "mental sculpture" is yet another of his works that explores distortions of scale, color and the idea of the void. Its seamless eight-millimeter-thick tiles are viewable only through a two-square-meter aperture.
Memory debuted at the Deutsche Guggenheim in November 2008.
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