Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice announces major exhibition dedicated to Anish Kapoor

The director of the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice, Giulio Manieri Elia, announces a major exhibition dedicated to Anish Kapoor (Bombay, 1954). For the first time the Gallerie dell’Accademia will host a British artist. The exhibition is scheduled to open on May 3, 2020, and will be open to the public until October 3, 2021. It will be curated by Taco Dibbits, director of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

The retrospective will feature pigment sculptures from the artist’s early days, made in the late 1970s and early 1980s, void sculptures from the 1990s, mirror works from the 1990s and the new millennium, and new works using Kapoor Black, the blackest material in the universe. The exhibition aims to reinterpret thirty-five years of Kapoor’s career and his tireless research into sculpture and the immaterial.

After the major exhibitions dedicated to Philip Guston in 2017 and Georg Baselitz in 2019, the Gallerie dell’Accademia will again open its doors tocontemporary art, on the occasion of the 2021 Art Biennale. This is a choice that aims to establish an increasingly close dialogue with the city and its most important initiatives, to offer visitors a wide and interesting offer, and, above all, to reconnect with the origins of the museum, which, when it was founded about two centuries ago, animated by the cultural dynamism of Leopoldo Cicognara and Antonio Canova, aimed to enhance the artistic production of the time alongside ancient masterpieces.

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Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice announces major exhibition dedicated to Anish Kapoor

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