Sir Anish Kapoor, CBE RA (created 12March 1954) is an Indian sculptor. Kapoor received a Knighthood in the 2013 Birthday Honors for services to visual arts. He was given an honorary doctorate degree in the University of Oxford in 2014.
In springtime 2011, Kapoor’s work, Leviathan, was the yearly Monumenta setup for the Grand Palais in Paris. Kapoor described the work as: “A single item, one type, one colour… My dream would be to make a space with in a space that reacts to the height and luminosity of the Nave in the Grand Palais. Visitors will likely be encouraged to walk in the job, to immerse themselves in colour, plus it’ll, I trust, be a contemplative and poetic encounter.” In 2011, Kapoor presented Filthy Corner in the Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan. Totally taking the site’s “cathedral” space, the work is made up of huge steel volume, 60 metres long and 8 metres high, that visitors enter. Indoors, they slowly lose their awareness of space, as it gets increasingly darker and dimmer until there isn’t any brightness, driving individuals to make use of their other senses to guide them through the space. The entry of the tunnel is goblet-shaped, featuring an interior and exterior surface which is ring-shaped, making minimal contact with the earth. On the span of the exhibit, the work was increasingly covered by some 160 cubic meters of earth by a big mechanical device, forming a sharp mountain of soil that the tunnel is apparently running through.
The Doon School, Chelsea College of Arts, Hornsey College of Art
Spouse
Susanna Kapoor
Children
Ishan Kapoor, Alba Kapoor
Awards
Turner Prize, Padma Bhushan
Star Sign
Pisces
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When I first came to London you had to go to a specialist shop to buy olive oil.
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Camden Town, London, England [May 2009]
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London, England: Sculptor [June 2013]
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He was awarded the Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to the Visual Arts. He is a sculptor.
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He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2003 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to Art.
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He allegedly declined a British honor for his services to arts.