“I think I am a painter who is a sculptor… For me the two things have somehow come together, so that I am making physical things that are all about somewhere else, about illusory space.” Anish Kapoor, interviewed in Art Monthly, May 1990
Anish Kapoor returns to Lisson Gallery with an exhibition that contrasts his coolly rational sculptures with a series of giant and wildly expressive resin and silicon works. The latter are a new development within Kapoor’s oeuvre which he has worked on over the last 18 months. Simultaneously both sculpture and painting, these are flesh-like panels that resemble animal carcasses and recall works by Rembrandt, Soutine and Bacon. The exhibition as a whole engages in a play of interiority and exteriority, reshaping the viewers’ psychological states as well as the space around them.
25th March – 9th May, 2015 52 – 54 Bell Street, London, NW1 5DA www.lissongallery.com
