Buco

Details

Anish Kapoor (B. 1954)
Buco
painted terracotta
153/8 x 153/8 x 15¾in. (39 x 39 x 40cm.)
This work is executed in 'Oro Zecchino' and is from a series of variously coloured versions from the same mould. It is to be set inside the wall with the centrepoint at a height of 67in. (170cm.). The work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.

Provenance

Massimo Minini Gallery, Brescia.

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Lot Essay

"The idea is 'to make an object which is not an object, to make a hole in the space, to make something which actually does not exist.' Even more, the extraordinary appearance, loved and feared, of a piece of void, at once finite and infinite, reactivates the symbolic contact between inside and outside, earth and heaven, male and female, active and passive, conceptual and physical, thus renewing the process of knowing." (G. Celant, also quoting the artist, in: 'Anish Kapoor', Milan 1996, p. 30.)

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