Anish Kapoor's Visceral Sculptures Confront Suffering at Macro Rome

The Macro museum in Rome presents a solo exhibition of Anish Kapoor, featuring visceral silicone, pigment, and fabric works that evoke raw flesh and suffering. Titled after Kapoor's biomorphic sculptures like 'Flayed', 'Hung', and 'Dissection', the show contrasts these lacerated forms with a concave mirror piece, 'Mirror (Black to Red)', where the viewer's reflection is lost in dark depths. A centerpiece is 'Sectional Body Preparing for Monadic Singularity', a seven-meter cubic structure previously shown at Versailles in 2015, alongside 'Internal Objects in Three Parts', which was exhibited among Rembrandts at the Rijksmuseum. Kapoor, born in Bombay in 1954 and based in London, is known for monumental works like London's ArcelorMittal Orbit and Chicago's Cloud Gate. The exhibition explores the tension between perfect surfaces and the fragile organic systems beneath, offering a cathartic confrontation with contemporary horror.