Avant Arte has announced its first collaboration with Anish Kapoor together, they are releasing Kapoor’s first silkscreen print edition, Out of the Dark.
The work is a 24-layer silkscreen print with hand-deckled edges and finished with a matte varnish seal, measuring 38.6 x 66cm produced by master printmakers, Make-Ready, one of the premier silkscreen printers in the world.
I am thrilled to share my first silkscreen print and to collaborate with Avant Arte on this new edition and look forward to participating in a project that takes artwork to a wider audience.
Anish Kapoor,
Anish Kapoor is considered one of the most influential artists of our time, perhaps best known for his architecturally scaled works such as Cloud Gate (2004); Sky Mirror (2006) and Leviathan (2011). Long celebrated for his sculptures, painting has always been an integral part of his work, and recent exhibitions at Modern Art Oxford (2021) and Gallerie dell’Accademia and Palazzo Manfrin (2022) have brought this part of his practice into more prominent focus than ever. Drawing and printmaking are also central languages within his graphic oeuvre and Kapoor has collaborated with highly regarded publishers and master printmakers since the 1980s, including Crown Point Press and Paragon Press, working in a
variety of mediums including etching, spitbite, drypoint and woodcut. Alongside his sculptural work his drawings, prints and paintings are held in some of the most important collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, Prada Foundation, Guggenheim Museums, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tate, British Museum, among many others.
Anish Kapoor is one of the world’s leading contemporary artists and his ability to reach beyond the art world into wider public consciousness aligns incredibly well with our mission to make discovering and collecting art radically more accessible. Out of the Dark is Anish’s first ever screenprint, made in collaboration with our master printer and printmaking studio in London, and it will be available for one week as part of our time-limited edition programme designed to help more people start their art collecting journey. We’re very excited to be able to offer our community the opportunity to own this beautiful work by such an important artist.
Mazdak Sanii, CEO and Co-Founder, Avant Arte,
The collaboration marks Kapoor’s first ever time-limited print edition and is offered as part of Avant Arte’s ongoing time-limited edition programme which aims to open up access for art lovers and collectors to acquire the work of leading contemporary artists in a more accessible format.
Anish Kapoor, Out of the Dark available for 7 days for €1360.00/ approx. $1480.00 on avantarte.com from 3PM GMT / 10AM ET on 11th December 2023.
About the artist
Anish Kapoor (b.1954, Mumbai) studied at Hornsey College of Art (1973–77) followed by postgraduate studies at Chelsea School of Art, London (1977–78). He has held major solo exhibitions globally since representing Britain at the 44th Venice Biennale (1990), where he was awarded the Premio Duemila and won the Turner Prize (1991). His work is permanently exhibited in some of the most important international collections and museums. Increasingly renowned for artworks that blur the boundary between architecture and sculpture, many of his public works have become iconic landmarks. Recent solo exhibitions include Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy (2023); Skulpturen-Park, Waldfrieden, Wuppertal, Germany (2022); Gallerie dell’Accademia & Palazzo Manfrin, Venice, Italy (2022), Modern Art Oxford, U.K (2021); Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany (2020); Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum and Imperial Ancestral Temple, Beijing (2019); Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires (2019); Serralves, Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal (2018); University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC), Mexico City (2016); Château de Versailles, France (2015); Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow (2015); Gropius Bau, Berlin (2013); Sak?p Sabanc? Müzesi, Istanbul (2013); Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2012). Kapoor lives and works in Venice and London.
