Anish KapoorUntitled 1983

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Artist
Anish Kapoor (born 1954)
Title
Untitled
Date 1983
MediumPolystyrene, cement, earth, acrylic and pigment
Dimensionsobject: 1140 x 580 x 580 mm object: 790 x 575 x 570 mm object: 620 x 590 x 590 mm object: 540 x 460 x 460 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition Presented by the American Fund for the Tate Gallery, courtesy of the Carol and Arthur Goldberg Collection in honour of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City 2012
Reference
T13695
Not on display

Summary

This untitled sculpture comprises three ground-based, free-standing forms placed in a diagonal row, and a fourth form affixed above them on the gallery wall. Each shape evokes a hybrid of the natural and the man-made, as they are abstract and stylised yet curiously organic. The relationship between the four separate forms is determined by their shared colour – an intense blue – and their spatial alignment – a geometrical arrangement that seems to link the forms together. This arrangement encourages the spectator to read the ground-based forms consecutively in terms of height, from the lowest, which is furthest from the wall, to the tallest, which is closest to the wall… (read more)

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