Anish Kapoor Painting

Exhibition at Modern Art Oxford, 2 October 2021 - 13 February 2022

This exhibition catalogue is the first publication to examine in depth the paintings of Anglo-Indian artist Anish Kapoor (1954-). It offers a unique insight into a language that has attracted increasing attention over the last ten years, but which has also been an integral part of the artist's practice since the beginning of his career in the late 1970s.

In works that straddle the line between abstraction and figuration, Kapoor's paintings reveal the desire to go beyond the surface that has been so emblematically explored in his best-known sculptural works. Recurring motifs recur again and again, rendered in paintings where image, surface, space and time appear in a sometimes delicate, but often violent symmetry.

With essays from such key voices as Julia Kristeva and Homi K. Bhabha, with whom the artist has collaborated to articulate his distinctive visual language, this wide-ranging study presents the trajectory that has led Anish Kapoor to his boldest and most surprising body of work to date.