Anish Kapoor

London

The Lisson Gallery currently presents for the first time a new series of earth works of varied formats by artist, Anish Kapoor: table sculptures modelling micro and macro-landscapes, wall and floor sculptures evoking the natural forms of rock and coral, and works on canvas coated with pigments mined from the earth in a gritty take both on painterly traditions and on Kapoor’s own earlier pigment sculptures and void forms.

Colour is not an end in itself for Kapoor, it is rather the emotional impact of colour as of form that drives his work. Referencing the great masters of monochromatic painting from Malevich to Barnett Newman and Ellsworth Kelly, Kapoor elides the distinction between two and three dimensions, between perception and experience. The play between surface and depth is a familiar characteristic of Kapoor’s articulations of void forms in earlier as well as this new work. This duality, along with that between the earthy or base and the pure and spiritual, have been tellingly described by Germano Celant, who sees Kapoor’s work as standing at the crux of “spirit and matter, above and below, masculine and feminine… the duality [in which] the energy of transformation and evolution lies.”

Anish Kapoor

Lisson Gallery

October 10th – November 10th, 2012
2-54 & 29 Bell Street
London, NW1 5DA
UK

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