The Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney hosts in Australia for the first time an exhibition dedicated to the work of Anish Kapoor, Indian architect and sculptor. Main themes of his research are androgyny, sexuality and ritual developed with a method that combines eastern and western art and culture. Through the use of gypsum, granite, limestone, wood and marble come to life forms designed following the study of poor art and researches developed in the 60s.
The geometric, biomorphic and enigmatic forms are dressed of colors pigmented from traditional Indian chromatisms; red, as symbol of passion, and blu, that has always been bearer of feelings such as spirituality and transcendence, awaken the senses and the body as only means of knowledge. Light and shadow coexist on mirrored surfaces that reflect reality and absorb the surrounding spaces to make part of them.
Until April at the Museum of Contemporary Art are exhibited works such as 1000 Names (1979-80), one of the first sculptures of Kapoor; Void (1989) a large sculpture that changes its appearance from concave to convex depending on the position of the observer, and My Red Homeland (2003) huge circular structure in which a motorized blade dissects and reshapes 25 tons of red wax as a symbol of the artist's role.
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