Study visit to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park to see Miró and Anish Kapoor
We are delighted to announce a study visit to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park on Thursday 21 June.
To book your place please email enquiries@oca-uk.com. We will be visiting the beautiful sculpture park just up the road from Barnsley HQ where there is the first major UK exhibition by Joan Miró. A real bonus is that there is also a small Anish Kapoor exhibition on at the same time, so we will also be taking a look at this.
The exhibition describes the extraordinary wealth of Miró’s sculpture, much of which was made in the second half of his life. With key works set in the landscape, the exhibition fulfils the artist’s desire that “sculpture must stand in the open air, in the middle of nature”.
The Sunday Times calls the exhibition “Essential summer viewing.” and Miró’s grandson calls it “The most important exhibition of Miró’s sculpture ever.”
The other artist on show at the Sculpture Park is the renowned artist and Turner Prize winner, Anish Kapoor. Anish Kapoor works with a range of materials including pigment, stone, polished stainless steel and wax. This is the first survey of Kapoor’s work to be held in the UK, outside of London.
We’ll meet just inside the main entrance to the main Sculpture Park building at 11.30am. OCA tutor and sculptor Jim Unsworth will be accompanying you as will Gerald Deslandes who is a specialist on Miro. We plan to be at the venue until 3.30pm.
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Two of my favourite sculptors. I lived in Barcelona for a year and frequented the Miro Foundation there. Some of his sculptures were outside, yet most of them were inside in a big airy space with large windows looking over the hillside, if my memory serves me right. He was very interested in themes to do with nature and fecundity and, although he lived in Paris most of his life, had deep roots in Catalunya. It strikes me that some of his sculptures seem otherworldly- almost like friendly aliens!
There was a small, but perfectly formed, exhibition of Anish Kapoor’s work at Edinburgh College of Art last year. One piece, I can’t remember its name, was like a giant bell covered with a mixture of red pigment, wax and a jelly-like substance. There was a huge blade which went round the bell very slowly, pushing the delicious mixture into rivulets and grooves. It was absolutely mesmerising.
I wish I could see these exhibitions at the Sculpture Park.
I just stopped by YSP a few days ago and even in the drizzle and mud and without the Anish Kapoor (too early unfortunately) it was a magical place to explore, if you can go on the study visit or any time at all- DO!