Pot for Her
Anish Kapoor
British, born India, 1954
Details
Title
Pot for Her
Artist/Maker
Anish Kapoor (British, born India, 1954)
Date
1985
Medium
Mixed media and pigment
Dimensions
38 x 96 x 42 inches
Credit
The Lenore and Burton Gold Collection of 20th Century Art
Accession #
1999.104
Location
Currently not on view
Known for his lyrical, abstract sculptures, Anish Kapoor states, “I wish to make sculpture about belief, or about passion—about experience that is outside of material concern.” Pot for Her beautifully demonstrates the dualities characteristic of Kapoor’s art. The recumbent blue form is simultaneously figurative and abstract, phallic and vaginal, organic and geometric. The work’s title and swelling middle imply that it is some sort of vessel. Its opening is hidden, however, rendering the interior an imagined space full of mysterious possibilities.
Image Copyright
© Anish Kapoor