In the 18th century, Count Manfrin, a wealthy, Croatian-born tobacco merchant, transformed the first floor of Palazzo Manfrin into a public picture gallery. The second will unfold across the canal at the 18th-century Palazzo Manfrin, which, following many years of vacancy, has been acquired by the Anish Kapoor Foundation to become its headquarters once restorations are complete.Īnish Kapoor, Shooting Into the Corner, 2008-2009. The first takes place at the revered Gallerie dell’Accademia, where Kapoor, who represented Britain at the 1990 Venice Biennale, will become the first British artist to be honoured with a show. We’re touring Kapoor’s studio ahead of his mega-moment in Venice, where, during the 59th Venice Biennale, he will stage two simultaneous solo shows. For a Turner Prize-winning, Knighthood-bearing artist with frequent seven-figure auction results, he’s remarkably willing to reveal works in progress – just don’t take any pictures. This is a place of production, but also trial-and-error experimentation. Some reflect, warp and bend what we know as physicality others pretend it doesn’t exist. Some are visceral, messy and erupting with disobedient desires. Each of the many rooms in the artist’s vast south London studio contains very different Kapoors. Anish Kapoor’s art is rarely easy on the eye, but it is hard to stop looking at.

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