Palazzo Strozzi meets Anish Kapoor

Untrue Unreal

From October 7, 2023 Palazzo Strozzi in Florence presents the artist Anish Kapoor, the master who has revolutionised the notion of sculpture in contemporary art. "Untrue Unreal" is the title of the exhibition that proposes a journey through monumental installations, intimate environments and disturbing forms, creating an original and engaging dialogue with the architecture and the public of Palazzo Strozzi. Anish Kapoor is an eclectic artist, capable of ranging between different art forms such as painting, sculpture and architecture. Pigment, stone, steel, wax and silicone, to name only but a few of the materials he works with, are manipulated, carved, polished, saturated and formed - to the point of a dissolution of boundaries between the plastic and the immaterial.

Through historical works and recent productions, the exhibition is an invitation to a direct dialogue with Kapoor's language in its versatility, discordance, entropy and ephemerality. Palazzo Strozzi becomes a concave and convex venue, whole and yet fragmented, in which visitors are called on to question their senses. His works arouse astonishment and disquiet, destabilising our perception and creating spaces and form in which to experiment and think both the known and unknown. Anish Kapoor is currently one of the most recognised and acclaimed artists, and his work are exhibited in the most important museums and galleries around the world. Photo: © Attilio Maranzano