Anish Kapoor. Untrue Unreal

Representative sculptural works that explore the limits and potential of our relationship with the world.

This monograph presents 30 seminal works by acclaimed Indian artist Anish Kapoor (born 1954) from the 1980s to the present, spanning virtually the entirety of his long and distinguished career.
One of the most notable features of Kapoor’s works is the way they transcend their materiality. Pigment, stone, steel, wax and silicone are manipulated – carved, polished, saturated and moulded – to the point of dissolving the boundaries between the plastic and the immaterial. Colour in Kapoor’s hands becomes an immersive phenomenon that contains its own spatial and illusory volume. Kapoor seeks estrangement, the elimination of ordinary references, to undermine the way we are accustomed to seeing things and place them in a completely different perspective, creating works that act as catalysts of energy. This volume reveals the genesis of his artistic practice and investigates its language, providing new keys to its interpretation.