Jazz Green : Artist Journal

April 1st, 2010

I have been reading about Anish Kapoor’s Olympic sculpture, to mark London’s hosting of the Olympic Games in 2012…

This tangled and twisted structure (with a viewing platform) alludes to the five Olympic rings, and will be 115m high, and will cost £19.1m to build. Kapoor wanted the sensation of unstability; I think he must have meant instability or possibly even unsuitability… off balance, out of kilter, a helter skelter on acid, with all the hideous, tortured appeal of a car crash wreck.. It will indeed be ‘a stunning spectacle’ as expressed by London’s mayor, Boris Johnson…

One comment on “fool’s gold”

  1. Ian Foster

    Hello Jazz
    ..off balance, out of kilter, a helter skelter on acid, with all the hideous, tortured appeal of a car crash wreck..
    I couldn’t agree more.

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