Versailles Sculpture

Anish Kapoor's new sculpture, temporarily on display in the gardens of Versailles, is creating a bit of a row after he told a French newspaper that it represents "the vagina of a queen who is taking power." Critics say it looks like "the entrance to a storage unit," or "a vast, brutish, metal, grubby-looking, gaping funnel into a black hole." Kapoor concedes that his work has "multiple interpretive possibilities."
     Posted By: Alex - Mon Jun 08, 2015
     Category: Art





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Looks to me quite clearly like the alien ship from the old Doctor Who serial "The Claws of Axos"
Posted by Ross on 06/08/15 at 09:08 AM
He needs to concede that he is no artist and remove this eyesore to the dumpster.
Posted by grayjohn on 06/08/15 at 10:04 AM
One more reason to avoid Versailles. Better venues to visit are Vaux-le-Vicomte, Fontainebleau, and Chantilly. The crowds are smaller and you still get a feel for the excesses of the ruling class.

My first impression when I saw Versailles thirty years ago: I could see why the peasants wanted to hunt down the king and family.
Posted by KDP on 06/08/15 at 11:21 AM
Thurs jus folks what ain't got no kooths!
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 06/08/15 at 11:24 AM
The creator is a con-artist, in that he put a unorganized pile of junky stuff on a nice lawn in a attractive garden and got paid to do so. As my art professor friend said, The beauty is in the mind of the artist and the best is the green of the money you sell it for.
Posted by Gator Guy on 06/08/15 at 12:09 PM
Maybe I'm just unfamiliar with the genitalia of the royals, but if I found a gaping chasm like that on a girl I was sweet on, it would make me think twice about taking things further.
Posted by Miles on 06/08/15 at 04:38 PM
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