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Lot Essay
"Kapoor travaille à partir d'un corpus de sources mythologiques, parmi lesquelles, je suspecte, se trouve l'idée de la Grèce ancienne selon laquelle l'artiste qui recherche la compréhension et la création parfaite risque de concurrencer les dieux, qui considèrent la création comme leur prérogative personnelle. [...] Et le satyre Marsyas a ainsi payé de sa vie d'avoir remis en cause Apollon et son jeu de flute. [...] Comme le fait remarquer Kapoor en effet: 'Les artistes ne créent pas des objets, les artistes créent des mythologies, et c'est à travers les mythologies que nous lisons les objets.'"
"Kapoor works from a sumptuous reserve of mythological sources, among which, I suspect, is the ancient Greek idea that the artist who seeks perfect understanding and creation risks challenging the gods, who regard creation as their prerogative alone. [...] And the satyr Marsyas paid with his life for questioning Apollo's supremacy as a flute player. [...] As Kapoor observes: 'artists don't make objects, artists make mythologies, and it's through the mythologies that we read the object.'"
Nancy Adajania, Anish Kapoor, The mind Viewing itself
"Kapoor works from a sumptuous reserve of mythological sources, among which, I suspect, is the ancient Greek idea that the artist who seeks perfect understanding and creation risks challenging the gods, who regard creation as their prerogative alone. [...] And the satyr Marsyas paid with his life for questioning Apollo's supremacy as a flute player. [...] As Kapoor observes: 'artists don't make objects, artists make mythologies, and it's through the mythologies that we read the object.'"
Nancy Adajania, Anish Kapoor, The mind Viewing itself