Anish Kapoor is well used to working within historic environments.  In 2015, he had the challenge of installing an exhibition of large works within the gardens of the Palace of Versailles, giving the historic formal layouts a new contemporary twist.   The recent refurbishment of Pitzhanger Manor has included a new gallery space within the old 1930′s library extension and, for the first of a planned series of contemporary art exhibitions, Anish Kapoor has installed a series of reflective coloured mirrored installations that twist, curve and turn space upside down, changing with time as the visitor moves around them, and reflecting the architecture of the space from the rooflights above and the view through to the park beyond.

Sir John Soane, the architect of Pitzhanger Manor, himself used mirrors in his designs to give illusions linked to space and light, though a little more restrained than Kapoor’s, and used curves in his architecture, in particular in his ceiling designs, so there is a subtle link between Soane’s architecture and Kapoor’s work, appropriate for this first exhibition which, appropriately, you visit after exploring the architecture of the house so you can appreciate the connections.