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The exhibition "Anish Kapoor: Works, Thoughts, Experiments", which opens Friday at 22:00, presents four great works of the sculptor and the "Language of the Birds" never seen before
The first Individual exhibition in Portugal of the work of Anish Kapoor, one of the most important contemporary sculptors, comprises four pieces distributed in the Serralves Park, accompanied by a sculpture at the museum and 56 models designed by the artist over the last 40 years
The piece "Sectional body preparing the monadic singularity", presented for the first time at Versailles in 2015, and built in bright red PVC, is the only one of its kind. one of the members of the exhibition and intends to reflect, according to the words of the artist, on "the change of space" and the articulation between "the interior and the l '. exterior of the object "
of a cubic structure in modules seven meters high, da In which form and material function as "a kind of skin or membrane between the body and the world", with elliptical openings on three sides that evoke "the organs of the body (" Mirror of Heaven "), another of the exhibited works, which has already gone through cities like London, New York and Mumbai, consists of a concave mirror made of stainless steel that "forces observers to enter the realm of the room" so that they can to experiment in their entirety, reflecting the place where she is exposed, in a sort of "paradise on earth," says Anish Kapoor.
"Language of Birds", an unpublished work, is another work of the artist exhibited in the Serralves Park, which consists of a spiral staircase where, once a week, climb to the pedestrian in reference to a childhood memory of the sculptor.
"Descent into Limbo" ("Descent into Limbo") is the oldest sculpture of the exhibition and whose title is inspired by a homonymous work of the painter. Renaissance artist Andrea Mantegna, which stems from the interest of the artist "for the formal and metaphorical play between light and dark, inside and out, the content and the infinite, "the statement said. Anish Kapoor, whose "Orbit" and "Cloud Gate", serve to reflect on "the form, the space and the possibilities of objects," said the artist, added that "are a way of think of how objects are in the world and what they can do. "
" White Out "is another exhibit in the museum, a" monolithic white "sculpture that connects works to large scale from the outside and the 56 models displayed in the central gallery. 659002] Anish Kapoor was born in Mumbai, India, in 1954. In the 1990s, he gained international recognition as a member of the generation of new British sculptors, having since developed a vast work such as "Cloud Gate" (2004). "Marcyas" (2002), "Leviathan" (2011) and "Orbit" (2012).
His works have earned him numerous awards such as the Duemila Prize in 1990, the Turner Prize in 1991 and Padma Bhushan in 2012.
Two of the characteristics of the sculptor's work are the large scale of his works, which for the artist are "part of the language of sculpture" and that he considers as "essential" to "physically involve the viewer" and experimenting with new possibilities.
Suzanne Cotter, curator of the exhibition, stated that it was her last project associated with the period as director of the Serralves Museum, adding that "Portugal deserved to see
L & rsquo; The idea of the name "Anish Kapoor: Works, Thoughts, Experiments" comes from the curator because these are concepts addressed by the artist and as such "a reflection on these dimensions in his work".
his part, the current director of the museum, João Ribas, pointed to the "figurehead of sculpture" of Anish Kapoor, who brings a "design from scratch" and "the experience of the art and the exhibition for the outside ". The show is on hold until January 6, 2019.
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