Anish Kapoor is one of the most important artists of his generation. Born in Bombay and living in London since the early 1970s, he has exhibited worldwide and has works in many important public collections including the Tate Gallery, London and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The artist uses different media to explore his vision including stone, metal, marble, pigment and fibreglass. Yet these materials are magically fashioned, polished and coloured into non-objects which invoke the sublime, a condition of emptiness and darkness. Kapoor represented Britain at the Venice Blennale in 1990, where he won the prestigious Premio Duemila and in 1991 was awarded the Turner Prize.
British sculptor Anish Kapoor reveals another facet of his diverse abilities with this beautiful accordion-fold artists book reproducing ten previously unpublished gouache paintings. Murkily sensual and full of swelling, luminous contrast between dark and light areas, these mostly abstract paintings were executed on the double pages of an accordion notebook in January 2011. Occupying a palette of blacks and grays, with occasional intrusions from glowing oranges and purples at the pages edge, these works evoke the interplay of recess and protrusion that so famously characterizes Kapoors sculpture. As daily acts of meditation, they can be said to have as their primary subject the artists subconscious: what Im trying to do is paint the interior, my interior, he says. This volume is perhaps the most exquisite manifestation of Kapoors intent to date.
