ART-REVIEW:Anish Kapoor-Another (M)other

Anish Kapoor, Mound, 2018, Silicone and gauze, 305 x 213 x 71 cm. Something like her, 2018, Silicone and paint, 305 x 213 x 72 cm, View of the exhibition “Another (M)other”, kamel mennour (6 rue du Pont de Lodi), Paris, 2018, © ADAGP Anish Kapoor 2018, Photo: archives kamel mennour, Courtesy the artist and kamel mennour-Paris/London
Anish Kapoor, Mound, 2018, Silicone and gauze, 305 x 213 x 71 cm. Something like her, 2018, Silicone and paint, 305 x 213 x 72 cm, View of the exhibition “Another (M)other”, kamel mennour (6 rue du Pont de Lodi), Paris, 2018, © ADAGP Anish Kapoor 2018, Photo: archives kamel mennour, Courtesy the artist and kamel mennour-Paris/London

Anish Kapoor’s solo exhibition “Another (M)other” at Galerie kamel Mennour is one of the best exhibitions of this artistic year. It’s truly immersive!!! It is an exhibition where you instantly recognize Anish Kapoor, but at the same time, through his new works you are invited to discover him. They are so powerful that they take your breath, it is like the artist is trying to overcome himself from artwork to artwork, each one is better and stronger than the other, without colliding! They just coexist – are in dialogue and at the same time function autonomously, in their uniqueness and self-sufficiency. Although sculptures and paintings that are on the boundary between painting and sculpture, are exhibited same space at both Kamel Menour’s Galleries in Paris leaving the first gallery you cross the narrow street and to the other, it’s like being in the same space, the exhibition is so well staged that the visitor does not understand the transition to two different spaces, there is no inconsistency anywhere, it extends smoothly from one space to another, since the artist manages in a masterful way to convey to the viewer the transition and the transformation of the emotions resulting from this very interesting alchemy. The most important thing is that the new works of the exhibition “Another (M) other” although they emit the personal mythology of the artist, through the large forms, the shapes and the power of black or red color that characterize Anish Kapoor’s work; they encompass us and in each of them are enclosed the fears, the desires, the love, the eroticism and the existential agonies of all of us, without swallowing us, instead they create a pleasant feeling of maternal embrace. Like the artworks that are wrapped with plastic film, like the mother’s womb in which we felt safety as embryos and we are trying  to retrieve whenever we are on need for it(!)-Efi Michalarou

Info: Galerie Kamel Mennour, 47 rue Saint-André des arts, Paris and 6 rue du Pont de Lodi, Paris, Duration 4/6-21/7/18, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 11:00-19:00, www.kamelmennour.com