Photo by Wolfgang Woessner, courtesy the artist and MAK, Vienna

Anish Kapoor's "Shooting into the Corner" shooting into the corner

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One of these is Shooting into the Corner (2009), in which a cannon will repeatedly shoot projectiles of red wax into a corner, creating a sculpture over time as the substance builds up on the walls and floors. The other will be called Svayambh, which roughly translates from Sanskrit as “auto-generated.” It will look like a slow-moving lump of wax on rails that leaves a residue in its wake.

No word on who gets to clean up afterwards, but the exhibition will include other new works, including a courtyard sculpture, and earlier efforts by the India-born Kapoor.

The Independent reports that this is the first time in two decades that all of the Royal Academy’s gallery space has been turned over to the works of a single artist and that the last time it did so was in 1988 for a show of work by Henry Moore, who had been dead for two years. The newspaper said there have been questions of whether the Academy is turning to contemporary art as a fund-raising exercise.

The exhibition will be open to the public from September 26 to December 11.

Read more at the Independent.