ART-PRESENTATION: Anish Kapoor,Part II

Anish Kapoor achieved international recognition in the 1980s as a member of the generation of new British sculptors. Since then, he has developed an oeuvre which stands out for its immense diversity and ambition, and has embraced both the intimacy of un-certain objects in interior space to the monumental scale of the urban and rural landscape (Part I), (Part III).

By Efi Michalarou
Photo: MOMENTUM Archive

Anish Kapoor’s solo exhibition at MOMENTUM in Moss, Norway brings together important earlier works from the 1980s to the present. The exhibition bring together important earlier works like “White Sand, Red Millet, Many Flowers” (1982) with the artist’s later works as “Sky Mirror” in the beautiful baroque garden in front of the main building of Galleri F 15. The sculpture pulls the sky down to the earth in a sublime union of the elemental forces of landscape; presenting a proposition about space and the nature of the object that is such a central enquiry in Kapoor’s work. Kapoor’s works take on the mythic qualities and symbolic relationships of landscape. Bringing earth and sky, horizon and dark interior together, his sculptures traverse boundaries and shift meaning. Their form or formlessness situating a state of becoming that is mobile and liminal. We cannot know Kapoor’s sculptures, instead we must experience them. Kapoor is focused on the active or transformative properties of the materials he uses. “I am really interested in the ‘non-object’ or the ‘non-material.’ I have made objects in which things are VVtion. As Alnoor Mitha, one of the curators, said: “Our curatorial aim and ambition was to show a comprehensive exhibition that brought together important earlier works going back four decades. We wanted to show a coherent body of Kapoor’s work from the diverse sculptural languages he has discovered”. This exhibition captures the artist’s creative legacy, the vast complexity and materiality in scale, colour, form and tactility. In many ways the work translates a binary of visual narratives, on the one hand, Kapoor’s work reminiscent of Japanese Haiku poetry transforming deep and significant meaning into a meditative and exhilarating experience. On the other, each work enhances an ostensibly perceptive identity.

Info: Curators: Dag Aak Sveinar and Alnoor Mitha, MOMENTUM, Galleri F 15, Biørn Biørnstads vei, Moss, Duration: 30/6-14/10/18, Days & Hours: Tue-Sun 11:00-17:00, www.punkto.no