Anish Kapoor: Versailles
Alfred Pacquement, Catherine Pégard
RMN, 2015
€55,00
Kapoor is the latest in a line of high-profile modern artists invited to install new works at the Château de Versailles, the enormous palace built by the Sun King Louis XIV that acme to symbolise the end of the monarchy and the French revolution. Kapoor’s presence at Versailles is one of France’s defining art shows this year. The Indian-born, London-based sculptor has gone further than any artist before him in taking on the powerful legacy of Versailles.
But after Kapoor described his installation Dirty Corner – a vast steel funnel amid broken stone – as “the vagina of the queen” taking power, controversy has been growing. The monumental, mysterious metal opening – installed so that it faces up towards the Palace – has sparked debate about whether it truly resembles a queen’s vagina, and if so, whether it is supposed to be that of the guillotined Marie Antoinette.
ISBN: 978-2711862641
