Last chance to see Anish Kapoor's dramatic retrospective in Bilbao

Anish Kapoor’s retrospective transferred to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain, following the artist’s hugely popular exhibition at the Royal Academy in London last year. This is the first time Kapoor’s work has been shown in a major solo exposition in Spain - and it's only open for one more week.

Kapoor’s interest in the tension between form and formlessness, texture and colour, volume and the void, finds added context in the deconstructivist architecture of Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim.

The show goes beyond materiality and processes to develop a sculptural language and discourse on perceptual depth, as Kapoor has said:

“Material somehow always leads on to something immaterial”.

Each gallery focuses on a single experience dedicated to one large-scale installation or one series of works: the pigments, void, polished stainless steel, and cement series. Fibreglass, stone, polished surfaces, cement, bright colours and bold red wax form the building blocks of these series, which have been developed by Kapoor since the 1970s.

The physicality and explosive nature of Shooting into the Corner (2008-9), which presents a canon firing red wax across the gallery at twenty-minute intervals to evolve and alter the sense of space with the accumulation of wax – is characteristic of the excitement and drama to be found in this exhibition.