Anish Kapoor

Sir Anish Kapoor ( born March 12, 1954 in Mumbai, India) is a born, London-based British sculptor in India. As the winner of some of the most coveted art awards and support high civilian awards, he is one of the world's most respected artists of his time.

Life

Kapoor is the son of an Indian Hindu, who worked as an engineer with the Indian Navy, and a Jewish Iraqi. At the age of 16, he left India, first lived on a kibbutz in Israel, and came to London in 1973, where he first studied art at the Hornsey College of Art and later at the Chelsea College of Art and Design. He also attended the Doon School in Dehradun, India. His works show the influence of Eastern and Western culture, and include religious themes. A membership to a particular religion is not obvious.

He received international attention already in the 1970s with sculptures of color pigments. About monochrome installations he came to monumental sculptures from unusual materials. His Marsyas (→ Marsyas ) from the year 2002 was installed in the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern in London. A situation created by him altar stone is located in the lower church of the Frauenkirche in Dresden. In 2003 he built a factory exhibition at the Kunsthaus Bregenz, a 20 -ton red sculpture of Vaseline and wax with the title My red Homeland. Followed in 2004, Cloud Gate, a 110 -ton stainless steel construction in Millennium Park in Chicago. 2008 Kapoor created in Berlin with the 24 -ton steel sculpture Memory commissioned for the German Guggenheim; 2009/10 she was seen at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

From Kapoor comes the design for the ArcelorMittal Orbit, a 115 meter high sculpture for the 2012 Olympics in London. The design consists of interlocking twisted steel beams, reminiscent of the shape of an oriental hookah. As a top viewing platform is planned. The steel tower will remain after the Olympic Games.

Exhibitions

  • From 30 May to September 7, 2008 the Kapoor's work showed the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston dedicated exhibition "Past, Present, Future ".
  • By April 2009, Kapoor was seen in his exhibition Shooting into the Corner at the Museum of Applied Arts ( MAK) in Vienna. In the same year the Royal Academy in London the diverse work of the artist devoted an extensive exhibition.
  • 2011 his 12 -ton and inflated with 72,000 cubic meters of air structure Leviathan was issued as part of the annual Monumenta at the Grand Palais in Paris. That same year, Kapoor revealed at the 54th Venice Biennale, his installation " Ascension". In the Basilica di San Giorgio, he found it just the right exhibition space: " In my work often blurred appearance and reality. What particularly interests me about " Ascension" is the idea of immateriality, which is the object here: smoke forms into a column. In this work, there is also an allusion to Moses, who followed a column of smoke, a ray of light in the desert "At the same could be seen in Milan works of Kapoor at two venues. In the Rotonda di Via Besana and in the Fabbrica del vaporizers.
  • 2013: Aarhus, ARoS: Small / Byars / Kapoor
  • In the atrium of the Martin -Gropius-Bau, in the 2013 exhibition Kapoor took place in Berlin, the artist created the installation " Symphony for a Beloved Sun". Blood Red wax chunks are moved on conveyor belts several meters into the air and then fall in front of a giant, the setting sun symbolizing deep red disc into the depths.

Prizes and awards

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