This is a spectacular exhibition in the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. The artist is Anish Kapoor, Indian – born, London –based sculptor. The exhibition displays his dispense multiple visual thrills and mysteries. ”Past Present Future” contains 14 works that concentrate on the last 15 years.

Mr. Kapoor combines too many disparate strands of art, thought and culture. He is a brilliant and unpredictable if sometimes ingratiating synthesizer who has simultaneously refined, repurposed and betrayed some of the dearest beliefs and most despised bêtes noires of late-20th-century sculpture.

Mr. Kapoor, is 54 year – old, did not begin life in a Western culture. He grew up in Mumbai, and moved to London to study art and then took up residence. He is a decade or so older than most of the Young British Artists, who took the art world by storm in the early 1990s, and his sensibility is markedly different: he greatly prefers gentle seduction to shock tactics.

One of the larger objects at the institute is “S-Curve,” a double curve in polished steel that resembles a middle-size wall. As you walk near its concave sections, the very floor seems to rise up and harrow your malformed reflection. At least serenely reflects your familiar self and about half the works in the show on an expanded plane, granting the slightly crowded installation a startling spaciousness.