Anish Kapoor & Future Systems
Red Solid Realization image
2004
Photo: Jeffrey Debany
The Snow Show created an interdisciplinary collaboration between individuals: one artist and one architect, working as a team to utilize snow and ice as the medium of design and construction. By eliminating familiar, stable materials, such as paint, bronze, wood, steel, and bricks, the hope was that preexisting biases, hierarchies, and principles of design would be neutralized.
Making the biomorphic shape for the project by Anish Kapoor and Future Systems was an experiment in defying gravity. Water at the base of the structure had to freeze on an oblique surface and, once frozen, had to support the entire weight of the piece. First, a mould was created using a steel framework covered with plywood sheets. Snow was blown onto the mould to create a base layer, then smoothed and shaped using hand tools. When the shape was finished, pigment-died water was sprayed onto the form several times to create layers of coloured ice that eventually amounted to 10cm in thickness, at which point the mould had to be removed from underneath. A tunnel was dug into the snow that allowed the workers to remove the steel and wooden structure without having to cut into the form. The slightest of disturbances while removing the mould would have brought the icy shell crashing down on the workers. Once the mould was removed, the ice stood unaided and supported the weight of the project.
Snow Show 2005 is in the proposal stage. Yoko Ono & Arata Isozaki are participating again this year as are Daniel Buren, Patrick Bouchain, Carsten Höller, Tod Williams & Billie Tsien, Paola Pivi, Cliostraat, Jaume Plensa, Norman Foster, Kiki Smith, and Lebbeus Woods.
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Posted by: jayant jadhav | July 15, 2007 at 04:00 PM