Artist Anish Kapoor presents works old and new in London gallery return

[LONDON] British artist Anish Kapoor presents bold, large new works alongside some of his older sculptures at a new exhibition in London’s Hayward Gallery, in a return to the space that held his first solo UK show nearly 30 years ago.

On display at the exhibition, which opens on Tuesday (Jun 16) and runs till Oct 18, are shiny sculptures made with mirrored steel or others in void-like black; visceral paintings and gory bloody pieces; as well as large-scale installations that the 72-year-old Mumbai-born Turner Prize winner is known for.

These include 2022’s Mount Moriah at the Gate of the Ghetto, a massive red and black mass hanging from the ceiling.

Among the new works are an expansive vivid red pigment piece called Ha Makom and All of Nothing, a huge, inflated red PVC membrane that greets audiences as soon as they walk in.

“I’ve explored or looked to explore that question of the object and the non-object, and how they live with each other. It’s obvious that red must feature in that equation, because in a sense, all of that interior is red,” Kapoor told Reuters of his use of red in his works.

“Red, of course, is at one level a colour of celebration, but it’s also a colour of deep darkness, of terror, of fear. As we know, the sublime is wonder and fear together. So somehow the two live with each other and I’m interested in what red does in that, in that, in those conditions.”

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The Hayward Gallery, part of the Southbank Centre overlooking the River Thames, was the first in the UK to hold a major survey of Kapoor’s works in 1998.

“It’s a coming home... in many ways... 28 years is quite a long time,” Kapoor said. “What I’ve tried to do is take on what I did before and take it to... some other place.” REUTERS