Anish Kapoor
London, 11 December 2024 – 11 January 2025
From 11 December – 11 January, Anish Kapoor presents a special exhibition of six concave mirror sculptures. Painted in shades of deep purple, displayed together they form a dynamic and transcendent environ that encompasses the viewer.
Through a deep-rooted impulse to experiment with the phenomenology of space, Kapoor’s oeuvre has long embraced the mirrored surface for its play with reflection and distortion, forcing the viewer to reassess their relationship to the stability of their own mirrored self in the world. Over the decades, these mirror works – as witnessed in this new body of semi-reflective, concave sculptures – have become increasingly painterly, embodying in them the artist’s own journey exploring the potential of painting through multiple mediums.
This series of works – including Wild Cherry, Magenta and Burple (2023), Clear to Purple (2024) and Dark Purple to Light Purple (2024) – fade subtly across shades of deep purple, creating a lyrical oscillation of colour that further emphasises or distorts the formal structure of the object and its reflection. The spiritual and magnetic quality of the colour derives from its existence as a horizon point; it sits between the opposing colours of blue (the source of black, the abyss and infinite heavenly sky) and red (the elemental shade of the internal, human and base). While much of Kapoor’s practice has been characterised by a powerful encounter with these two colours, the artist is now delving into the sublime meeting point of this hue, also associated with a sensation of other-worldliness, the magical and the spiritual, something just out of reach.
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Tuesday – Saturday: 11:00am – 6:00pm