Anish Kapoor Calls Vandalism at Palace of Versailles an ‘Inside Job’


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Dirty Corner, a controversial sculpture by British-Indian artist Anish Kapoor on display in the gardens of France's Palace of Versailles was vandalised for the second time. hidden September 07, 2015 12:54:58 IST


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Anish Kapoor's Dirty Corner is a modern art installation that used to be housed in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles until these incidents. This sculpture was vandalized thrice. For what reason? Why did this spur such a heated debate about what is able to be displayed as public art and who gets to decide? Dirty Corner


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A controversial sculpture by Sir Anish Kapoor in the Versailles Palace gardens has been covered in gold leaf to mask anti-Semitic graffiti. The trumpet-shaped work, called Dirty Corner, has been.


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Anish Kapoor's sculpture 'Dirty Corner' on display at the Versailles was vandalized. Here is the artist's statement about the incident and the work. Works of art are sometimes a focus for the larger discomforts in society. My 'Dirty Corner' at Versailles has such a fate. It has been reviled in the press as the "Queen's vagina" or the "vagina on.


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Dirty Corner - the sculpture in Versailles that has attracted some disapproval. Photograph: Charles Platiau/Reuters Kapoor entered psychoanalysis in his 20s during a period in which his sense of.


Anish Kapoor Calls Vandalism at Palace of Versailles an ‘Inside Job’

Artist behind Paris's biggest cultural event of the year has described Dirty Corner as 'the vagina of the queen' taking power Angelique Chrisafis in Paris @achrisafis Thu 4 Jun 2015 11.32 EDT.


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Dirty Corner, 2015 Wherever Kapoor goes, controversy often follows. In Versailles, he erected a huge steel funnel, which rested on the ground amid broken stones. He then described it as an antidote to the phallocracy that the palace represents, in his view. "I wanted to upset the balance and provoke some kind of chaos," he said.


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Funnel-like structure 'Dirty Corner' can be interpreted in a number of ways, says Anish Kapoor (AFP) The artist condemned the ruling, saying: "The racists in France have won a court judgement.


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The Dirty Corner, a 60 meter long rusted steel tunnel opened towards the castle through a makeshift horn of sorts, is described by Kapoor as being "very sexual". It's surrounded by excavations and enormous blocks of stone (up to 25 tons), certain of which are painted in blood red…


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Faced with an antisemitic attack on his open-air sculpture Dirty Corner, he has chosen to defiantly leave the ugly, vicious daubings as they are, to let his art bear the scars of contemporary.


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Dirty Corner, exhibited at the Palace of Versailles in 2015, was a topic of controversy due to its "blatantly sexual" nature. Kapoor himself reportedly described the work as "the vagina of a queen who is taking power". In 2020 Kapoor unveiled a new exhibition at the grounds of Houghton Hall in Norfolk. It was the largest ever outdoor exhibition.


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Covering anti-Semitic vandalism on Anish Kapoor's Dirty Corner with gold leaf By: Tori Campbell Controversial Public Art When controversial art stands behind the closed doors of museums and galleries, it gains the attention of only its most outspoken critics.


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Kapoor originally described his 2015 "Dirty Corner" installation destined for Versailles , a steel-and-rock sculpture over sixty meters long and ten meters high, as " the vagina of the queen who is taking power ," but later retracted his statements to focus on his message: "to create a dialogue between these great gardens and the sculptures".


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A controversial sculpture by Sir Anish Kapoor on show at the Palace of Versailles in France has been vandalised for a second time. The huge installation, called Dirty Corner, was covered with.