The realisation of the impossibility of the void in this work is all the more emphatic as it almost looks like it is created by an intense concentration of gravitational force, as if it were a self-made object. This illusion adds other folds into the decortication of what this thing is: the unilateral darkness of the black pigment eliminating the sensation of depth and the concrete floor beholding the work. To borrow Heidegger’s rumination on The Thing (1950), the “thingness” of Kapoor’s Descent into Limbo, Havana is its uncanny flatness, which reveals to be a three-dimensional crater on closer inspection. Descent into Limbo, Havana (2016) sits as a black circular surface at the centre of the Galleria Continua space in Cuba. The hollowness and chaos that engender darkness came to be before any intervention. Anish Kapoor shows a deep interest for the proto-experience in his artworks. It carries not the contemporary connotation of disorder or mayhem, instead, it points to the void state prior to the creation of the cosmos, the non-being moving emptiness from the original separation of heaven and earth. Photo: Paola Martinez FiterreĪt the beginning, there was Chaos. Images courtesy of Galleria Continua Into Limbo, Havana, 2016, fiberglass and pigment,diameter 3 m, unique work.Courtesy the artist and GALLERIA CONTINUA, San Gimignano / Beijing /Les Moulins / Habana. Opening times: Monday-Saturday from 10 am to 1 pm and from 2 pm to 7 pm The Descension exhibition is running until 5 September 2015. The vacuum is that moment in time before creation, when anything is possible”. I have always been interested in the creative moment when everything is possible and nothing has occurred yet. And all of this has a lot to do with time. Instead, for Kapoor, the vacuum - in this case put into relation with the solidness of the alabaster sculptures - is the run-up to creation: “I have always thought of the vacuum as a transitory space. A counterpoint to the sculptures using fine material and the formal continuation of “Descent into Limbo”, displayed in 1992 at Documenta IX, where a cube housed a black hole in the floor, described by Kapoor as “a space full of darkness, not a hole in the ground”.Ĭonversely, at Galleria Continua in San Gimignano “ Descension” is vortex, flow and movement that calls into question our perception of the earth as something solid and reliable.Īnish Kapoor gives us a vacuum, a term that references the 'horror vacui', with a destabilising power. The heart of the works exhibited in the spectacular backdrop of the gallery's movie theatre, and which also gives the name to the actual exhibition is an installation where the void becomes the true focus of the artistic representation. These clearly defined, sculpted artworks give visitors a sense of eternity simply because they invite you to think about the concept of the infinite. A void, a vacuum becomes artistic content.ĭescension, the personal exhibition by artist, Anish Kapoor at Galleria Continua in San Gimignano welcomes visitors with a series of new alabaster sculptures. Galleria Continua in San Gimignano is exhibiting the work “Descension” by Indian artist Anish Kapoor, a 'horror vacui' represented by an installation with a huge visual impact.
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