Exhibition - Flashback / Anish Kapoor

A Hayward Touring exhibition in partnership with Manchester City Art Gallery, BALTIC, Nottingham Castle and Lisson Gallery London

Flashback:
- A transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
- An unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience

Flashback is a major new series of touring exhibitions from the Arts Council Collection. Taking as its starting point the Collection's founding principle of supporting emerging artists through the purchase of their work, the series showcases British artists of world renown whose works were acquired early on by the Collection.

Flashback will invite Anish Kapoor to revisit his earlier works in the Arts Council Collection and to use them as starting points for reflection on his subsequent practice. “Flashback is deliberately open; it does not demand the conventions of a chronological exhibition with its linear progression of an artist’s practice. Instead it invites the artist and the visitor to take a more unconventional path, one that leads backwards, forwards and sideways, on a journey that intensifies our current view through the presence of the past.”