A major exhibition dedicated to British artist Anish Kapoor will be held at the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice during the Venice International Art Biennale in 2022, opening on 20 April and running until 9 October 2022. According to what has been announced, the exhibition will be a retrospective that will retrace the highlights of the famous artist’s career.
Unpublished works will also be presented. In fact, for the first time, highly innovative new works, created using carbon nanotechnology, will be on display, in addition to recent paintings and sculptures that testify to the vitality and visionary drive of the master’s current artistic production.
The exhibition curated by Taco Dibbits will be set up at the Gallerie dell’Accademia and in the historic Palazzo Manfrin, in the Cannaregio district of Venice, to whose collection originally belonged a significant nucleus of masterpieces now on display in the museum.
Kapoor’s choice of Palazzo Manfrin as the seat of his art foundation, whose restoration project was entrusted to architect Giulia Foscari, is significant because of the link that the palazzo has with the Gallerie, which represent the most important collection of Venetian and Veneto art in the world. In this perspective, the works of one of the greatest contemporary artists are linked to a precise artistic context of important experiences and references, reviving the history of Venice and its pictorial tradition, to which Anish Kapoor constantly draws as a source of inspiration and creativity.
Website: www.gallerieaccademia.it
Location: Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice
Schedule: April 20 – October 9, 2022
