Rémy Martin XO Anish Kapoor is the icon of the House, an exceptionally opulent blend of hundreds of eaux-de-vie sourced in the two most central crus of the Cognac region.
There was a sense from the beginning of this project with Rémy Martin that it refers to my history. My father used to drink it when I was a boy in India, and I carried that with me. I began to think about a work that would sit alongside the Rémy Martin bottle, it has this radiant presence. It shows through. The colour is the most direct way of getting to it. Because it’s a liquid, as the light changes it changes. I toyed with it and decided on a much simpler design.”
THE CREATIVE PROCESS, A METAPHYSICAL JOURNEY
Anish Kapoor does not explore objects, but our relationship with them, the meaning we give them, until meaning itself becomes the subject.
“I’m after that sort of in-between. Somewhere between meaning and no meaning. Objects are not simply as described. Most of them have double lives: the one they say they have and another that is to do with our own sense of what they might be.
