In my first post I showed some of the works on the lower floor. Moving up the stairs at the Hayward Gallery, more of Anish Kapoor‘s red forms are pressed into the architecture.
The next room houses Ha Makom, derived from the Hebrew phrase “the place”.
It is otherworldly, inviting you to approach, drawing you in to look more closely.
Kapoor’s fascination with inner space extends to pieces that look like bodily innards with a deeper void.
I find these, however, less successful, perhaps because they feel so literal. As if he’s telling me rather than leading me to the ideas.
There are also some wall paintings – again, not to my mind his strongest work.
The abstract sculpture remains the most powerful aspect of his practice for me; it’s what I respond to intellectually and psychologically.
