Anish Kapoor

Adam

1988–9

Not on display

Artist: Anish Kapoor born 1954
Medium: Sandstone and pigment
Dimensions: 2470 × 1200 × 1120 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Presented by the American Fund for the Tate Gallery, courtesy of Edwin C. Cohen (for A., A., A. and J.) 2000
Reference: T07592

Display caption

The cavity carved out of this sandstone block is coated with a blue pigment. The physical presence of the anthropomorphic stone is combined with the visual experience of immersion into an apparently infinite chasm of blue. One of Britain’s best-known artists, Kapoor has described his interest in cavities and voids in terms of a ‘sensual uncertainty’, gaining access to an unstable series of forces which are both external and internal, physical and unconscious.

Gallery label, November 2016

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