Tall Tree and the Eye, 2009
Svayambah, 2009
Svayambah, 2009
Untitled, 2009
After a lazy Sunday breakfast, Ed and I made our way over to the Royal Academy to see the Anish Kapoor retrospective. Like a rock concert, the queue for the exhibition snaked its way outside the gallery and across into the grand plaza. In total we waited outside for about 20 minutes to get in but it was well worth the wait.
The exhibition highlighted monumental pieces throughout Kapoors career. The most memorable was the piece named Svayambah , sanskit word meaning “self generated’, which moves slowly through the galleries staining the breath of each of the spaces it enters. Another sensual piece was “Yellow”, an inverted yellow nipple covering the entire wall of the gallery. The visual richness of Kapoors work reflects the wealth his Indian heritage coupled with a violent surreal sexuality that rippled its way through each of the gallery halls.
I felt incredibly privileged seeing his work outside of library books and would highly recommend anyone living in London to go and see the exhibition.
