Leviathan by Anish Kapoor at the Grand Palais, Paris
Visitors will be invited to walk inside the work, to immerse themselves in color, and it will, I hope, be a contemplative and poetic experience.
-Anish Kapoor
Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait,
Tempest the ocean. There Leviathan,
Hugest of living creatures, on the deep
Stretched like a promontory, sleeps or swims,
And seems a moving land, and at his gills
Draws in, and at his trunk spouts out, a sea.
-Milton, Paradise Lost vii, 411-416
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only.
Our dreams are the reverse of our waking imaginations; the motions when we are awake, beginning at one end; and when we dream at another.
-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651(philosphical theory for rule by an absolute sovereign)
http://fr.phaidon.com/agenda/art/events/2011/may/11/anish-kapoor-unveils-leviathan/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/may/10/ai-weiwei-anish-kapoor-sculpture
