Amazing. Anish Kapoor appears as a brillantly innovative artist. Whatever the material he uses, he works as an inventive sculptor. Instead of spreading the paint on the canvas, as the painter would do, he shapes the pigments as a sculpture. As if to Celebrate I Discovered a Mountain Blooming with Red Flowers (1981) is a beautiful example. The central piece of the exhibition is a thirty-ton mix of wax and red paint fixed on tracks, moving slowly through the doors of five galleries. Svayambh (2007) is a huge automatic sculpture. It is shaped by the doorways of the museum. At that point, the work of art becomes autonomous, and interacts itself with the concept of reality. Greyman Cries, Shaman Dies, Billowing Smoke, Beauty Evoked (2008-2009) is another self made sculpture, this one computer generated. It looks like paint squeezed out of a tube, either like worms or organic forms, it is randomly beautiful. In a different way, the artist reshapes the reflection of things around his mirror sculptures. The body of the viewer, the works around and the space of the museum are being distorted by the twisted mirrors. The serie of polished stainless steel Wave Torus was recently shown at the Lisson gallery. Anish Kapoor reinvents reality, and within his work, invites the viewer trough the looking glass. Until December 11th.
http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/anish-kapoor/
