Friday 6 November 2009

Statue Art






Today I am writing about an art exhibition instead of a book because I found it so amazing that I thought I just had to write about it.

I went to see the Anish Kapoor exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art. Before I went I knew nothing about him, but my expectations were still high because I'd heard great things about him. I was paticularly interested to see it because all the art I do in school is drawing and painting but I want people to know that there are more ways of making art, for instance paper mache and statues and sculpture and animation. These are my favourite sorts of art because I prefer making things 3d because it's more fun.

The first thing I saw was huge giant metal balls all lined up to eachother, on eachother which was amazing because it was really exciting. That was in the courtyard before you even got into the exhibition.

Once we got inside we saw a big wax train, which was slowly moving and squeezing through doorways. I thought it was a very clever idea however it really should have gone zooming fast because then there would have been a big splat.


In another room there were rocks and things made out of concrete that my mother thought looked like poo. I disagreed. I thought they looked more like worms.



There were shapes coming out of the wall and on the ground that looked amazing because they were just sticking there, they looked like powder. They should have fallen but they just stood there.



There was one other room that we did not look in for very long but however it had a hole in the middle that was very hard to see which made it like an optical illusion.
In one room there were mirrors which made you go upside down, turning you in to a giant and turned you into little thin stripes, making you very very very tall.
Then we went into a room with a big crowd of people just standing there. In the room there was one large gun. The doorway that it was pointing at was filled with red wax. Suddenly a man came, and pushed in a cylinder of red wax and fired the gun. It was a stinging shot that hit the wall bang on and just stayed there. At first I wondered what happened, and then I saw it. It was amazing.
There was also one sculpture that looked sort of like a twisted trumpet with lips for the place where the music comes out.
My favourite piece was probably the mirrors, because I found that one the most strange, which I liked. My friend Adam went to see the exhibition on the same day as me, but I didn't see him there.
Anish Kapoor has made a very good exhibition, and I like his style.

2 comments:

  1. You have certainly made me want to see this exhibition. A great review.

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  2. I have seen this exhbition and I too found it very interesting. I liked the mirrors because they reminded me of fun fairs I used to read about in stories but never saw in real life. My favourite exhibit was definetly the trumpet with the lips. It was like the trumpet player had blown so hard his mouth had gone right through the instrument and out the other end.

    A very perceptive review

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