Anish Kapoor (1954)
Plastic artist.
Indian-British, born in Bombay in 1954, Kapoor attended the prestigious Doon School in Dehra Dum, in his native country. He moved to England in 1972, where he continued his studies, this time at the Hornsey College of Art and at the Chelsea School of Design. He began to gain international notoriety in the early 1980s, when he was considered one of the British sculptors who had been exploring new styles of art.
Kapoor's works are often simple, curved shapes, usually just one color or brightly colored. For the most part, the intention is to hold the attention of the public, invoking a mystery through the dark cavities of their work, usually with their size and simple beauty. He uses pigment in his work in and around them. This practice was inspired by the brilliant and colorful pigments in the Indian markets and temples. Afterwards, their works began to be solid and many of them had dug openings and cavities, and messing with opposites. (such as earth-heaven, material-spirit, light-darkness, visible-invisible, male-female and body-mind). His most recent works are based on mirrors, reflecting or distorting the public.
Since the 1990s, Kapoor has produced several large works, including Tarantantara (1999), a 35-meter work installed in Baltic Flour Mills at Gateshead, England, before the renovation started there and Marsyas (2002), a great work of steel and PVC installed in Turbine Hall de Tate Modern. A stone arch of Kapoor was permanently placed on the shore of a lake in Lodingen to the north of Norway. In 2000, one of Kapoor's works, Parabolic Waters, considered a rapid rotation of colored water, was shown outside Millennium Dome in London. In 2001, Sky Mirror, a mirror grid that reflected the sky, was awarded in Nottingham. In 2004, Cloud Gate, a 110-ton steel stainless steel sculpture, was shown in honor of British victims at the September 11 attack in New York. Kapoor's most recent work confuses the boundaries between architecture and art.
Kapoor represented Britain at the 1990 Venice Biennale, where he was awarded the Duemila Prize; The following year, he won the prestigious Turner Award. The sample from Banco do Sul presented its first full profile in February 1999. The exhibitions of his work were shown at the Tate and Nahayward Gallery in London, Kunsthalle Basel in Switzerland, Reina Sofia in Madrid Ottawa, Musee des Arts Contemporains in Belgium, at the CAPS Museum of Contemporary Art in Bordeaux and at the Banco do Brasil Cultural Center in Brazil.
Its works are collected worldwide, notably at the Museum of Modern Art in New York at the Tate Modern in London, Fondazione Prada in Milan, Guggenheim in Bilbao, Pont Foundation in the Netherlands and the 21st century Contemporary Art Museum in Kanazawa, Japan.
Normally his works are large. In 2007 his work is on display in Brazil for the third time in his career, this time in São Paulo. Previously exhibited in 1983 and 1996. FP.
May 2011 - On exhibition at the Grand Palais, in Paris, the monumental inflatable sculpture Leviathan. The work is attracting thousands of visitors diaries.It is a single piece with incredible 72m3 and 35 meters high, and it is even possible to walk inside the work.
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