ANISH KAPOOR
S-Curve, 2006
polished steel
85.25 x 384 x 48 inches
(216.5 x 975.4 x 121.9 cm)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Regen Projects
633 North Almont Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90069
Tel. (310) 276-5424 Fax. (310) 276-7430
www.regenprojects.com

ANISH KAPOOR
February 24 - April 1, 2006
Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 - 6:00 pm
Opening reception: Friday, February 24, 5:30 - 7:30 pm

Regen Projects is pleased to announce the exhibition of a major new
sculpture by the London-based artist Anish Kapoor. In the spirit of his
recent large-scale commissions, such as Cloud Gate for Millennium Park
in Chicago and Marsyus for Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern, London,
Kapoor has created S-Curve, a large, polished steel sculpture that
measures approximately 33 feet long and 8 feet high. The sculpture’s
concave and convex mirrored surfaces turn the space that it occupies
upside down, creating an illusory sense of the reflected reality and
confounding one’s relationship to the space. S-Curve continues Kapoor’s
investigation into the principle of the non-object.

Kapoor has stated, “I do not want to make sculpture about form - I wish
to make sculpture about belief, or about passion, about experience that
is outside material concern.” Kapoor first became known for his
installations of abstract geometric sculptures that were biomorphic in
form and dusted with monochromatic colored pigments. In a sense, these
works sought to translate spiritual tenets into their sculptural
equivalents. As the work evolved, Kapoor shifted his focus from the
exterior form of objects to their dematerialized interiors. This change
in emphasis from outer to inner resulted in Kapoor’s
“voids”–sculptures incised in walls, stone, stainless steel, and
fiberglass that invite a consideration of both their physical and
metaphysical qualities. Kapoor’s sculptures achieve a subtle balance
between surface and space, the material and the immaterial, the visual
and the aural, and the literal and the illusory.

Having completed numerous public sculptures around the world, in 2004
Kapoor unveiled his most ambitious site specific installation in the
U.S. with the monumental Cloud Gate in Chicago’s Millennium Park, along
side Frank Gehry’s Jay Pritzker Pavilion. The 110-ton sculpture is
forged from a seamless series of polished stainless steel “plates”
creating an elliptically arched, mirror-like surface that reflects the
Chicago skyline and surrounding park. Inspired by liquid mercury, Cloud
Gate is among the largest sculptures in the world, measuring 66 feet
long by 33 feet high.

Kapoor’s work has been the subject of several major exhibitions
throughout Europe and the U.S. Solo exhibitions include the Tate
Modern, London; Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; Fondazione Prada, Milan;
Reina Sofia, Madrid; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; the Baltic Center
for Contemporary Art, Gateshead; and the CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain
de Bordeaux. Kapoor received the prestigious Turner Prize in 1991 and
was awarded the Premio Duemila for representing Great Britain in the
1990 Venice Biennale.

Monographs of Kapoor’s work have been published by Edizioni Charta, the
Hayward Gallery, Fondazione Prada, The Museum of Contemporary Art, San
Diego, the Tate Gallery, the CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux
and the National Archeological Museum, Naples.

An opening reception for Anish Kapoor will take place on Friday,
February 24th from 5:30 - 7:30 pm at the gallery. For further
information please contact Shaun Caley Regen or Lisa Overduin at (310)
276-5424.