anish kapoor's countless black whirpool at galleria continua

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anish kapoor’s black whirlpool endlessly spins at galleria continua
(above) descension, 2015
 metal, water, motor  / 500 x 500 cm
all photographs courtesy the artist and galleria continua, san gimignano / beijing / les moulins
all photographs by ela bialkowska, okno studio

anish kapoor: descension
galleria continua, san gimignano
now via september 5, 2015

anish kapoor returns to italy with ‘descension’, infilling san gimignano’s galleria continua with specifically conceived installations and artworks for the gallery’s huge former cinema and theater house. amongst a sequence of recent sculptures in alabaster, a set of labor in chrome steel and large-scale, fiberglass interventions all through, is the set up within the stalls space, ‘descension’, from which the exhibition takes its title. beforehand introduced throughout the kochi-muziris biennale in india, the seemingly black bottomless gap of darkish water ceaselessly spins down into the ground, dragging the viewer into its menacing abyss.

descension, 2015

via its countless development downwards into the theater ground, ‘descension’ destabilizes the viewer’s notion of the earth as a stable factor and embodies kapoor’s exploration into non-objects as artworks. in its fixed state of flux and motion, the set up presents the customer with a pointy a thrust downwards in direction of a completely unknowable inside.

regarding the relationship between fullness and the void, kapoor says, ‘I’ve all the time considered it (the void) … as a transitional house, an in-between house. it’s very a lot to do with time. I’ve all the time been as an artist in that very first second of creativity the place all the things is feasible and nothing has really occurred. it’s an area of changing into.’

descension, 2015

kapoor’s work extends the idea of sculpture in artwork. the exhibition contains a sequence of recent sculptures in alabaster, by which a extremely refined part has been rigorously carved out from the quantity. inviting the viewer to mirror upon the mysteries of time buried inside their type, these untitled stone lots concurrently convey a way of eternity, whereas their translucent qualities reinforce the sense of transition from portray to sculpture.

set up view of ‘descension’ at galleria continua

video courtesy of GALLERIACONTINUA

chrome steel sculptures, painted fiberglass objects mounted on the wall and big interventions that tower above guests are viewable all through galleria continua, every imposing kapoor’s curiosity in the human being and self-awareness, on the thoughts and the expertise of the issues surrounding it, and on the universality of time and house.

set up view of the exhibition ‘descension’ at galleria continua, san gimignano