“I’m a painter working as a sculptor,” Anish Kapoor has said—a bit of a tease when you think of Cloud Gate, his big silver bean in Chicago’s Millennium Park, or Descension, the temporary whirlpool he erected in Brooklyn Bridge Park. But three years ago, the paintings Kapoor exhibited at Modern Art Oxford made waves. “I have an obsession with red,” he told The Guardian. “My favourite colour of all, the one I use by the ton, is Alizirin crimson. It’s a very dark bloody Bordeaux wine red. What’s interesting about red is that it links to black so unbelievably easily. Red makes great darkness. And of course one might say red is fully a colour of the interior.” In this exhibition, Kapoor’s first with Lisson in Beijing, his red paintings are on view. They are, according to Kapoor, an exploration of inner and outer states. —Elena Clavarino