Artistic nothingness

From: The Spectator | Date: May 9, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

There isn't much in the Hayward Gallery for the next few months -- mainly a lot of empty space, punctuated by a few holes. The visitor walks into the first, big long room, for example, and finds just three works in it: a rectangular blue hole in the right wall, a circular mirrored hole in the facing wall, and a vortex-like mirrored funnel in the floor. These are, however, if you like this sort of thing, rather special sorts of holes; voids, in fact, created by the sculptor Anish Kapoor, who is contemporary art's major exponent of artistic nothingness.

Nothingness is, of course, a major theme ...

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