Arts: VISUAL ART - Beware the Concrete Jumble of the Unconscious Mind. ; Fiona Banner Frith Street Gallery LONDON Anish Kapoor Tate Modern LONDON

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The first thing you see as you walk into Fiona Banner's show at Frith Street Gallery is the word "LAPPER", gazing up at you in knee- high concrete letters. Closer examination reveals various things about this work, part of a piece called Concrete Poetry: that the word on the floor actually reads "SLAPPER", the initial "S" having been edited out by an inconvenient doorway; that it is one of a series of cuss words - "PONCE", "BOLLOKBRAIN" [sic], "IGNORAMOUS" [sic], etc. - intentionally misspelt a la Tracey; that, appearances and title to the contrary, the word is actually made out of something that isn't concrete: plaster, maybe, with a cement- coloured gesso wash.

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