MONUMENTALITY AND SPIRITUALITY IN THE WORK OF ANISH KAPOOR
For its thirtieth anniversary, the MAMC+ invites Anish Kapoor, a famous British artist of Indian origins. Given carte blanche, Kapoor presents the installation My Red Homeland for the first time in France, alongside new original works.
At the heart of the Museum lies an installation in red wax spanning 12 metres in diameter and weighing 20 tonnes. The artwork is permanently modelled by a block of steel that makes a complete turn in just under an hour. Its name is My Red Homeland. Sculptures evoking emaciated bodies are arranged all around, as well as mirrors that show us a deformed and inverted reality.
Anish Kapoor uses colour both as a material and as a subject. He is interested in the physical properties of pigments, in their density and luminosity. It is not about colour as a cover or layer but as an essence. We become swept up in the material, which transports us into another space-time. His references to the powerful elements of nature are myriad, such as maternity, the cosmos, black holes, time… Each sculpture and installation questions us in terms of our origins and our role within the world.
CURATOR
Lóránd Hegyi
Art Historian and Director of the MAMC+ from 2003 to 2016
Martine Dancer-Mourès
Chief Heritage Curator
In charge of the 30th anniversary programme of the MAMC+
A MONUMENTAL INSTALLATION
NEW ARTWORKS
+ 20 TONNES OF WAX
SPIRITUALITY
