anish kapoor

Anish Kapoor is renowned for his enigmatic sculptural forms that permeate physical and psychological space. Kapoor's inventiveness and versatility have resulted in works ranging from powdered pigment sculptures and site-specific interventions on wall or floor, to gigantic installations both in and outdoors. Throughout, he has explored what he sees as deep-rooted metaphysical polarities: presence and absence, being and non-being, place and non-place and the solid and the intangible. Kapoor has stated that his aim is to make objects and installations that look as if imported 'from another world'. His carved stones, protruding wall sections, concave mirrors, and fleshy PVC membranes hover somewhere between pure geometrical order and biomorphic sensuality. Expanding upon Minimalist concerns with the body, Kapoor's work relies on the viewer's individual associations to transform his spaces, enclosed and surrounding, and it is their experiences that ultimately bring the work to life.

For the first time in The Unilever Series, the artist will use the entire length of Tate Modern's massive Turbine Hall, which measures 155m (550ft) long, 23 m (75ft) wide and 35m ( 115 ft ) high. Exploring the limits of sculpture and architecture, Kapoor is working closely with structural engineer Cecil Balmond of Ove Arup to create the work. Unilever's support, totalling £1.25 million over five year allows Tate Modern to commission a new large-scale work for the Turbine Hall each year until 2004.

Born in 1954 in Bombay , India , Kapoor was educated at Chelsea School of Art and has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s. He is one of the most influential sculptors of his generation and won the Premio Duemila prize at the XLIV Venice Biennale in 1990. One year later, he was awarded the Turner Prize, and in 2001 received an Honorary Fellowship at the Royal Institute of British Architecture.

Kapoor's work has been exhibited worldwide and is held in numerous private and public collections, including the Tate Collection, the Museum of Modern Art in New York , the Palacio de Velazquez, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia , Madrid , and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam . After his large one-man show at the Hayward Gallery in 1998 as well as that at CAPC Bordeaux, the South Bank Show presented the first full-length television profile of Kapoor in February 1999. In 1999, Kapoor's gigantic Taratantara was commissioned by the Baltic, Gateshead, and was dramatically displayed in Naples in 2000.

Kilde : Tate Modern