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ANISH KAPOOR

Opening: Saturday, November 26th 2016, 6pm Open from Monday to Sunday, 10am-6pm. November 26, 2016 - March 26, 2017

ARTE CONTINUA is pleased to present A negative space for Kapoor does Anish Kapoor’s first solo exhibition not yield an absolute void. In in Cuba. Anish Kapoor is one of the fact, the artist states1: “The most significant artists of our void does not really exist because times. His work is distinguished by we are constantly filling it with its boundless capacity to reinvent our expectations and fears. artistic language, in its monumental My that are called dimension as in its more intimate one. empty objects therefore contain Likewise, from November 26, 2016, a possibility. They stimulate a to March 26, 2017, ARTE CONTINUA philosophical thought but are not will engage the public into a survey the answer to anything. They simply of suggestive polarities capable present a condition; you have to of affecting the way we perceive do the rest”. Kapoor’s research things. casts its fundaments in non-forms and auto-generated objects, man In May 2015, Anish Kapoor took and self-awareness, the mind and part in the XII Havana Biennial. In the experience of things, and the collaboration with Galleria Continua, universality of time and space. he submitted Wounds and absent objects, a site-specific installation The present exhibition project for the cinema-theater Payret. This was designed specifically for ARTE past November, at the exhibition CONTINUA Havana’s spaces. Its Follia Continua! 25 años de Galleria pace is set by five sculptures Continua, a collaboration between that investigate the relationship Galleria Continua and Centro de between fullness and the void. Due Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, he to the way in which they are colored, exhibited the work Endless Column their concavities’ dimensions are (1992). On the occasion of his solo not intelligible; gazing at them show at ARTE CONTINUA, the artist fosters a sense of vertigo because, will showcase works that continue to according to the artist2: “The redefine and expand the concept of void (…) has many presences. Its in art. presence as fear is towards the loss of the self, from a non-object to a non-self.”

1 In an interview published by Beatrice Trotters on Editoriale Domus June 5, 2015. 2 In conversation with Homi K. Bhabha June 1, 1993.

Águila de Oro, Rayo 108 entre Zanja y Dragones Barrio Chino, Centro Habana, Cuba [email protected] | www.galleriacontinua.com Anish Kapoor was born in in the in Stockholm, the 1954. In the 70s he moved to London, Centre Georges Pompidou, the Louvre and where he currently lives and works. Grand Palais in Paris, the Guggenheim in Kapoor’s artistic career consists , New York and . Anish Kapoor’s of two complementary phases. The works are held in numerous public and former includes works from the early private collections, including the MoMA 80s: sculptural objects bearing forms in New York and the Stedelijk Museum in shifting between the abstract and Amsterdam. Amongst the best known and the natural, entirely covered with most highly acclaimed public commissions monochrome pigment, the intensity of realized by Kapoor in recent years, which conceals the manufactured origin there are: ( Modern Turbine of the work and suggests the idea of Hall, London), (Millennium the crossing of boundaries. In the 90s, Park, ), Underground (within he explored what may be recognized as the medieval tower of Sant’Agostino, the distinctive features of his output: Arte Continua, San Gimignano) and Earth increasingly monumental sculptures cinema (Arte Pollino un altro sud con that represent his staging of the void, Arte Continua, Basilicata). Anish Kapoor rendered tangible by a cavity that fills received the prize Premio Duemila at the them up or a material that empties them in 1990, the out. In the past thirty years his work has in 1991, and was awarded an Honorary been shown in several of the world’s most Fellowship at the London Institute in important museums and galleries. He has 1997. In 2003 he received a CBE. Since had solo shows at the Kunsthalle in Basel, 2001 he has been an honorary member the Tate Gallery and in of the Royal Institute of British London, the Reina Sofia in Madrid, the CAPC Architecture. Recent public commissions musée d’art contemporain de , include: Ark Nova, Lucerne Festival, in Bordeaux, the CCBB Centro Cultural Matsushima, Japan (2013); Orbit, Olympic Banco do Brasil in Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro Games, London, in collaboration with Cecil and São Paulo, and, more recently, at the Balmond (2012); Leviathan, Grand Palais, Haus der Kunst in Munich and the Royal Paris; and Monumenta 2011 (2011). In Academy of London. In 2010 he showed 2015, a major retrospective dedicated for the first time in India, with solo to the artist was held at the Palace of exhibitions at the National Gallery of Versailles, and his solo show Descension Modern Art in New Delhi and at Mehboob at Galleria Continua San Gimignano. Studios in Mumbai. The artist has taken part in group exhibitions organized by institutions such as the Serpentine Gallery in London, IX in Kassel,

Águila de Oro, Rayo 108 entre Zanja y Dragones Barrio Chino, Centro Habana, Cuba [email protected] | www.galleriacontinua.com