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Anish Kapoor
/ England b.1954
/
Void (#13)
1991–92
/ Fibreglass and pigment
/ 161 (diam.) x 120cm
/ Acc. 1998.006
/ Purchased 1998. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation
Ani sh Kapoor
Void (#13)
1991–92
Anish Kapoor’s works are informed by psychologist Carl Jung’s
ideas of collective unconsciousness, as well as concepts
of duality in Hindu and other philosophies concerned with
understanding the ‘wholeness’ of our experience of life.
His sculptures are often concave or convex forms through
which he explores the ideas of origin, and place or space, in a
metaphysical context. In front of works like
Void (#13)
, the viewer
is captured by its mesmerising, radiant blue, experiencing the
work in a way that involves the body and the mind.