Liverpool Cathedral is set to celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2024 with an exhibition by Anish Kapoor. The exhibition, which will feature work never before seen in the UK, is running from August 10 to September 15.

Called Monadic Singularity the artwork marks Anish’s first solo show in a UK cathedral and his first major solo exhibition in Liverpool since his seminal 1983 exhibit at the Walker Art Gallery. He has become world-celebrated for his works, including landmarks such as Cloud Gate, known affectionately as “The Bean”, in Millennium Park, Chicago and Nottingham Playhouse’s Sky Mirror.

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His exhibition will include architecturally scaled sculpture never before seen in the UK, Sectional Body Preparing for Monadic Singularity (2015). The Main Space will also feature a kinetic wax sculpture.

Anish Kapoor said: "To show works in Liverpool Cathedral is complex. It is a space that is alive both with the physical and spiritual. As such it is resonant with a powerful sense of body and the disembodied.

“The works that I have chosen to show in the cathedral are situated similarly between body and materiality and geometric immaterial which I refer to as the non-object. It is my hope that this conjunction of object and non-object here in this immense and potent space will be cause for reflection on the nature of religious experience and the human condition.”