Kapoor commits various sacrilegious acts of shooting at, or cutting into the Accademia’s hallowed walls, turning the very fabric of the gallery inside out. The motif of the skin and the fold is further explored through the spectacular, site-specific Pregnant White Within Me (2022), a giant bulge that distends the architecture of the gallery, suggesting a re-drawing of the boundaries between body, building and being. Alongside these works Kapoor’s most recent paintings are strongly debuted, setting up a dynamic dialogue with both the Gallerie’s art historical collection, and his own sculptural language. More unknown forces emerge through a further series of mysterious black works, some embedded in the wall of the gallery, that further explore darkness as a physical and psychic reality. In these works Kapoor proposes that if the motif of the fold in Renaissance painting was a sign of being, in their obliteration of the contour and edge we are offered nothing less than the possibility to go beyond being. The skin of the object as veil between the inner and outer world has always been a potent presence in the artist’s practice, and here at the Gallerie dell’Accademia, sculptures made with Vantablack push this dynamic into radical new territory, in forms that both appear and disappear before our eyes. ADMINISTRATIVE SUPERVISION AND EVALUATIONĪt the Gallerie dell’Accademia Anish Kapoor presents work from his seminal body of early pigment sculptures 1000 Names and void works – through to never-seen-before sculptures created with Vantablack a ground-breaking nano-technology material, a substance so dark that it absorbs more than 99.8% of visible light.GRANTS, CONTRIBUTIONS, SUBSIDIES, ECONOMIC ADVANTAGES.Organi di indirizzo politico-amministrativo.LE GALLERIE SI RACCONTANO | INCONTRI GUIDATI.CONSERVATION AND DIAGNOSTICS LABORATORIES.Progetto Rialto | Conferenze online 2020 - 2021.LUNAM | L'UNIVERSITÀ AL MUSEO | conferenze online 2021-2022.Il Seicento e il Settecento alle Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia | Nuovi Studi.LE GALLERIE DA ASCOLTARE! | LA NUOVA VIDEOGUIDA.Le Gallerie per tutti! | Appuntamenti speciali per i visitatori ipovedenti, non vedenti e curiosi.APERTURE SERALI | MOSTRA ANISH KAPOOR | ESTATE 2022.NEW REGULATIONS FOR VISITING THE MUSEUM.In morphing to activate various spaces, they challenge long-held views of sculpture as something rigid and insistent, which opens up his work to exist on its own terms. One of the conceptual underpinnings of much of the work is that the sculptures takes different forms each time they are installed. His intricate works are both luminous and weighty, meticulously fabricated yet malleable. Much of his work interrogates the legacy of colonialism, drawing connections between consumption, waste and the environment, but at the core is his unique formal language that distinguishes his practice.Īnatsui is particularly well-known for his large-scale sculptures composed of thousands of folded and crumpled pieces of metal sourced from local recycling stations and bound together with copper wire. ![]() His style combines the world history of abstract art with his local aesthetic traditions. Anatsui’s choice of these materials reflects his interest in reuse, transformation and an intrinsic desire to connect to his native continent of Africa while transcending the limitations of place. ![]() His typical material palette includes discarded resources such as liquor bottle caps, printing plates and cassava graters to create sculptures that defy categorization. 1944 Ghana lives and works in Nigeria) transforms simple materials into complex assemblages that create a distinctive visual impact.
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