![Anish Kapoor — “If the traditional sublime is in deep space, then this [the mirrored object] is proposing that the contemporary sublime is in front of the picture plane, not beyond it. I continue to make these works because I feel this is a whole new spatial adventure” — Anish Kapoor](https://rtwaymdozgnhgluydsys.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/artwork-images/auction-lots/NY010717-162017-lot1774371882416.jpg)
“If the traditional sublime is in deep space, then this [the mirrored object] is proposing that the contemporary sublime is in front of the picture plane, not beyond it. I continue to make these works because I feel this is a whole new spatial adventure” — Anish Kapoor
2011
Anish Kapoor's mirror-polished stainless steel sculpture challenges conventional notions of the sublime by turning the viewer's gaze back upon itself rather than outward into infinite depth. The work's convex or concave reflective surface distorts and absorbs the surrounding environment, making the observer both subject and object within the piece. In doing so, Kapoor collapses the boundary between artwork and audience, proposing that transcendence exists not in the distant or the vast, but in the immediate, disorienting space between the object and the self.
- Medium
- stainless steel
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale
November 16, 2017
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