About Anish Kapoor

I wrote a few months ago about my disappointment when viewing the Northern Lights , and becoming aware that no reality could match the psychedelic strangeness of the photos. Anish Kapoor ’s retrospective at the Hayward, on the other hand, offers the opposite. You are confronted with visual paradoxes, flat surfaces – especially those painted in his beloved Vantablack – that feel like tunnels into…