PALM DESERT, CA.- Heather James Fine Art is offering an important sculpture by Anish Kapoor, one of the world’s most influential contemporary artists. At 78 inches in diameter, the stainless steel and lacquer Blood Mirror consumes its space and everything around it. It captivates and resonates with viewers, who seldom resist engaging with the art.

Kapoor’s work typically manifests in simple, curved forms, usually monochromatic and richly colored to draw the viewer through extraordinary scale and surface. The round, concave, and highly reflective Blood Mirror has a powerful presence, both physically and psychologically. From a distance, it appears to be a void that tempts viewers to look closely as it reflects and distorts everything in front and to the sides of it. Up close, the surface seems to switch from concave to convex, which creates an unsettling tension as it challenges the viewer’s perception. The sculpture’s sonar effect also surprises, as it amplifies and projects the viewer’s voice to other areas in the room.

Born in Bombay, India, and living and working in London, Kapoor has gained worldwide acclaim for creating a vocabulary in raw pigments (he uses colors as symbols) and geometric and biomorphic forms. His monumental public and private pieces explore space, structure, and perception in an abstract fashion that he insists teeters on representation. His work touches myriad metaphysical polarities, such as presence and absence, inward and outward, visible and invisible, light and dark. The viewer’s presence activates these relationships.

The Turner Prize-winning Kapoor — who has exhibited at the Venice Biennale, Shanghai Biennale, Lyon Biennale, and Documenta IX — became known in the United States for his monumental Cloud Gate installation in Chicago’s Millennium Park. He has also created large-scale works for the Tate Modern in London and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, United Kingdom. His solo exhibitions include he Tate Gallery and Hayward Gallery in London, Kunsthalle Basel, Haus der Kunst Munich, Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin, Reina Sofia in Madrid, MAK Vienna, Sakip Sabanci Museum in Istanbul, and Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin, In 2008, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston exhibited Kapoor’s first U.S. survey. He was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 2003 and a Knighthood in 2013 for services to visual arts.

A video of the work can be seen here.

Heather James Fine Art offers a rare look into art history’s past and present, featuring a wide breadth of genres, including cultural art and antiquities, American and Latin American masters, European masters, Impressionist and Modern, postwar and contemporary, and photography. The gallery showcases blue-chip and cutting-edge contemporary art while maintaining the integrity of antiquity and classical masterpieces.

Heather James Fine Art has two galleries, one in Palm Desert, California, and the other in Jackson, Wyoming. For more information about the gallery and upcoming exhibitions, visit www.heatherjames.com or contact the Palm Desert Gallery at 760-346-8926.