Anish Kapoor. Whiteout. Catalogo della mostra (New York, May 8-June 25 2004)

Intimate yet grand, the immediacy of Kapoor's largescale sculptural works is often said to evoke the sublime. For Kapoor, however, it is the act of viewing, rather than the material, that consummates the work. Kapoor's materiality is concerned with, in his words, issues that lie below the material, with the fact that materials are there to make something else possible the non-physical things, the intellectual things, the possibilities that are available through the material. In this new body of work, Kapoor further explores the illusions of materials and surfaces, articulating his established dialogue between form and void, dynamic and static. Recently commissioned to create the memorial in New York for British victims of September 11, it is his second major permanent public work in the United States, joining the project for Chicago's Millennium Park, the city's largest public sculpture, slated for summer 2005.