Detail: A major new site-specific sculpture installation by Anish Kapoor is part of the Deutsche Bank Series at the Guggenheim and is the 14th in a series of artist projects commissioned by bank and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation for the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin. Constructed of Cor-Ten steel - a new material for the artist - Memory is a milestone for Kapoor. The work is composed of 154 Cor-Ten steel tiles, measures 14.5 x 8.97 x 4.48 meters overall, and weighs 24 tons. Its form nearly fills the gallery it occupies, challenging and altering the museum’s architecture through its improbable scale and proportions. The title alludes to how visitors encounter the work, which can never be seen in its entirety and remains largely hidden from view.
The accompanying exhibition catalogue offers in-depth analyses of Kapoor’s creative intellectual process and documents Memory’s development from the initial models to its final form.