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Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice to present a major exhibition by Anish Kapoor in 2022

Words by Carla Ingrasciotta
February 26, 2021

Originally scheduled to open during the year 2021, the exhibition has been postponed because of the pandemic, and will be presented during the Venice International Art Biennale in 2022, opening on 20 April and running until 9 October 2022. Curated by Taco Dibbits, General Director of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the exhibition will be a comprehensive retrospective presenting key moments in Kapoor’s career and exploring the development of his unique visual language. New works will be shown for the first time, revealing the language of Kapoor’s seminal sculptures, which explore the condition of what he has termed the ‘non-object’.

Giulio Manieri Elia, the Accademia’s Director, says: “With the retrospective dedicated to Maestro Anish Kapoor, following the major exhibitions dedicated to Philip Guston in 2017 and Georg Baselitz in 2019, the Gallerie dell’Accademia again opens its doors to contemporary art. In the past, a “pittore pittore”, what you might call a painters’ painter, has always been chosen, in the light of their affinity with the museum’s collection. Our choice of sculptor might seem a surprise, but Kapoor, because of his original and deep research into colour, light, perspective and space, grows from the roots of venetian Renaissance painting, investigating its essence and interacting intimately on an ideal – we could even say conceptual – level with Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Veronese and Tintoretto”.

Anish Kapoor said: “The light and space of Venice, and the glories of the Accademia’s collection, have long been an inspiration to me. I have come to love this city and its painters, sculptors and architects, and I feel honoured to be invited to engage in a visual dialogue with them. I hope I will be able to add something to the vocabulary of colour and form that has been Venice’s gift to the world.”

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Anish Kapoor at Galleria dell’Accademia
20 April – 9 October 2022

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