Untitled (Shu-red)

“I’m interested,” Kapoor says, “in that moment when a thing dematerializes, when it isn’t just an object.”  He has been described as a “magician” in the way the simple forms of his works complicate, distort, and invert space.  The effects of the mirror-like red lacquered surface are at once mysterious, sublime, and disorienting.  Color is extremely important to Kapoor, and red has particular symbolism for him, connoting what he describes as “the physical…the earthly…the bodily.”