![]() ![]() 13 accidentally fell into the work of famed artist Anish Kapoor titled Descent Into Limbo which features a hole in the ground made to look like a mere spot on the floor. ![]() Nevertheless, the man is reportedly recovering and “almost ready to return home,” says The Art Newspaper, and Descent Into Limbo is almost ready to be reopened.Ī cubical building with a black hole in the floor, Descent Into Limbo is, according to Kapoor’s site, a “space full of darkness, not a hole in the ground.” Hopefully, a space full of darkness offers a softer landing. But one art installation did, as a man visiting the Fundao de Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto, Portugal on Aug. File: Giovanni dal Ponte (1385-c.1437) - The Descent into Limbo, Roundel above Centre Panel - NG580.7 - National Gallery. It’s not clear how he managed to topple into the artwork, given that there are museum staff members monitoring the installation, according to a museum spokesperson. The local newspaper Publico first reported last week that a 60-year-old art lover had fallen into Descent Into Limbo, injuring himself and damaging the sculpture in the process. Well, it appears one visitor to the exhibition decided to see for himself if limbo really lay at the bottom of the well. It’s sort of the diametric opposite of the sculptor’s best-known work, a giant silver bean. This panel is by the Master of the Osservanza, named after a large altarpiece in the church of the Osservanza outside of Siena. Christ, holding a white banner with a red cross over his shoulder, reaches out towards a crowd of figures who are squeezed into the right-hand spandrel (the space above the curved moulding of the main panel). Painted in Vantablack, the “darkest man-made substance”-a black so black it’s not even a color, it’s actually a series of nanotubes that is Kapoor’s medium of choice-it reflects so little light as to give the impression of a bottomless portal into the earth. The Descent into Limbo: Roundel above Centre Panel Giovanni dal Ponte. Among the installations at the Serralves Museum’s “Anish Kapoor: Work, Thoughts, Experiments” exhibition in Porto, the first museum survey of the artist’s work in Portugal, is a dark pit, roughly 8 feet deep and 10 feet across, entitled Descent Into Limbo. ![]()
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