Anish Kapoor - Nicholas James - Bog

A recorded visit to an exhibition by Anish Kapoor at the Lisson Gallery London continued to 22nd June 2019. Includes descriptions of works and bio-dara of the artist. An addendum features a visit to the artist's studio in Camberwell 2011 where he demonstrates works in progress for the Olympic National Park and Leviathan to be installed at Monumenta Paris. 'In the rear ground floor space of the Lisson Ggallery a suite of new paintings, completed at the end of 2018. Each canvas is 274 cms tall by 213 cms wide. The colour range is restricted and highly pitched, a distinctly abstract expressionist handling with sweeping brush and hand work. An aggressive and confrontational approach infuses a violently striated surface. A basic pink shape, in some like sagging flesh or an upturned vessel is worked with smeared white strokes, then corrupted by slashed veins of blood red and pitch black, scarring the lower part of the canvases. The hand work introduces an element of unleashed energy on the white ground, in a scheme of unleashed emotion. It is violently expressive, chaotic and turbulent. ' N.P. James