Dimensions: support: 430 x 380 mm
Copyright: © Anish Kapoor | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: This untitled print by Anish Kapoor uses intense red and black to create a rather ominous landscape. The shapes feel primal, almost violent. What symbols do you see in this work? Curator: The dominance of red certainly evokes strong emotions. Consider how cultures across time have used red to signify blood, passion, or sacrifice. Do you see that single red dot hovering above? It may represent a lost soul. Editor: A lost soul! I hadn't considered that. It's fascinating how those colors and basic shapes can carry so much cultural weight. Curator: Indeed! It shows how abstract forms can still tap into our collective memory. I've learned something new as well.
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This is one in a suite of thirteen etchings entitled Blackness from Her Womb. The suite was produced in an edition of thirty of which the first twelve were bound as books, and the remaining eighteen were presented unbound in boxed portfolios made of hand-dyed parchment. Tate’s suite is number twenty-five, and is one of the portfolio versions. Each of the thirteen prints is signed by the artist. The project was designed and printed by master engraver Jacob Samuel.