Anish Kapoor

Artists

Anish Kapoor

Press release

Bringing together the essential languages of Kapoor’s practice, this landmark exhibition focuses on the artist’s recent work alongside early seminal artworks.
Uncover Kapoor’s continued exploration of perceptual illusion and what the artist calls ‘the space of the object’. 

Taken together, all the artworks in the exhibition actively involve us in recalibrating our notions of presence and emptiness, shifting our attention from surfaces to imagining what lies beyond.

Alongside his seemingly depthless ‘void’ works and recent sculptures made with Vantablack, an uncannily light-absorbing nanotechnology, the exhibition highlights Kapoor’s development of strikingly visceral forms of sculpture and painting that conjure the body, both imagined and experienced, prompting existential reflections. 

You also have the opportunity to engage with Kapoor’s mirror sculptures, which absorb the viewer into disorienting and vertiginous reflections. 

The heart of the exhibition is composed of three monumental works that simultaneously suggest architectural, phenomenological and mythological environments. With their overwhelming scale and emotional intensity, all three of these sculptures elaborate on Kapoor’s engagement with Romantic notions of the sublime, challenging the viewer’s sense of scale and self.