Anish Kapoor is best known for monumental outdoor sculptures: the ArcelorMittal-sponsored Orbit, built for the Olympic Games of 2012, is the tallest sculpture in the UK, and the stainless steel Cloud Gate, known as ‘The Bean’, has dominated Grainger Plaza, Chicago, for 20 years. But although demonstrating the breadth of Kapoor’s vision indoors can be a tall order, the Hayward Gallery has risen to the challenge. This survey of the artist’s career does contain some sizeable works, including Mount Moriah at the Gate of the Ghetto (2022), a red-and-black inverted peak that bears down on us from the ceiling (16 June–18 October). But it is just as interested in illusion, colour and perspective, and much of the work explores what Kapoor calls ‘the space of the object’, inviting us to think about how art can distort the surrounding environment – be it through reflective surfaces or through Vantablack, a colour so dark it makes sculptures seem like voids.
Find out more from the Southbank Centre’s website.
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