COPENHAGEN.- The exhibition Anish Kapoor – UNSEEN is the largest presentation of works by the internationally acclaimed artist Anish Kapoor in Scandinavia. A major figure in contemporary art over the last 40 years, Kapoor is known for exhibiting at the world’sleading institutions – and now his works graces ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art near Copenhagen.

The world-famous British-Indian artist is exhibiting a series of monumental works for the first time ever in Scandinavia. Extending across the majority of the ample galleries at ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art, the show includes landmark works such as Memory (2008), made out of 24 tonnes of Corten steel and the seminal Descent into Limbo (1992). The exhibition Anish Kapoor – UNSEEN is the most comprehensive ever staged in the museum’s history.

Director Marie Nipper states: ‘We are very proud that Anish Kapoor has chosen to enter into a close collaboration with ARKEN to present some of his most impressive – and technically demanding – works here at the museum. In some places we have had to rebuild ARKEN, even taking up floors to make room for the vast works. Audiences have a real treat in store: they will never have seen this exhibition anywhere else in the world – and the museum doesn’t look like its usual self either.

Anish Kapoor creates works of art that resonate with you on a physical and emotional level, embedding themselves in your body. We hope to create an art experience that the audience will never forget.’

The series of works on display present the breadth and depth of Anish Kapoor’s artistic practice, exploring contrasts and borderlands between light and dark, lightness and mass, the visible and the invisible. Kapoor is internationally recognised as a master of transformation, using qualities such as mirroring, colour, concavity, and apparent weightlessness to change our perception of materials, objects and space – indeed, even our perception of our own sense of self.

The physicality of Anish Kapoor’s works effect an important rediscovery of a world which we sense with our whole body and process in our creative consciousness; a psyche-soma experience more vital than ever in the present age of remote digital consumption. The audience will discoverthat for themselves at ARKEN.

The museum wishes to thank the A.P. Møller and Chastine Mc-Kinney Møller Foundation, the Augustinus Foundation, the Aage and Johanne Louis-Hansen Fond, the Danish Arts Foundation and the Furi Appel and Gunnar Nisker Foundation, which have made this exhibition possible.