Dimensions: unconfirmed: 2390 x 1205 x 1040 mm
Copyright: © Anish Kapoor | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: Here we have Anish Kapoor's "Adam," a large sandstone sculpture with a deep blue void. It strikes me as both monumental and strangely unsettling. What do you make of the interplay between the rough stone and the smooth darkness? Curator: The formal contrast is indeed striking. Note how Kapoor juxtaposes the geological, with its inherent textures and irregularities, against an intensely worked void. The eye is drawn into this planar surface. Editor: So, it's less about what the void represents, and more about how it functions within the piece? Curator: Precisely. Consider the void as a form in itself, a negative space rendered as palpable as the stone. It invites the viewer to contemplate volume and surface, presence and absence. Editor: That makes me see the sculpture very differently. Thanks! Curator: My pleasure. Considering these formal qualities allows us to appreciate Kapoor's manipulation of perception.
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The cavity carved out of this sandstone block is coated with a blue pigment. The physical presence of the anthropomorphic stone is combined with the visual experience of immersion into an apparently infinite chasm of blue. One of Britain’s best-known artists, Kapoor has described his interest in cavities and voids in terms of a ‘sensual uncertainty’, gaining access to an unstable series of forces which are both external and internal, physical and unconscious. Gallery label, November 2016
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