To enter Anish Kapoor’s world at the Hayward Gallery in London last summer, was like embarking on a journey to discover infinity. His retrospective, arguably one of the most significant art events of the closing decade of this century, included many new works, several of which were made especially for the show. Architect Claudio Silvestrin transformed the unremitting dreariness of the gallery into wide white spaces, forming an appropriate foil for Kapoor’s poetics of light and space. Not always evident, Anish Kapoor’s interest in architecture as body, is much in evidence here. His work interacting with the space around; magnifying, distorting and absorbing the architecture.

Kapoor has always sought to articulate in his work that which is almost impossible to render at a phenomenological level – the idea of space which one knows intuitively but which one cannot physically apprehend. With Kapoor’s work it is not simply the sensuous impact of colour and form that matters, awesome though that impact might be, but the discovery of what is not included.