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  Anish Kapoor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the early 1980s, Kapoor emerged as one of a number of British sculptors working in a new style and gaining international recognition for their work (the others included Richard Wentworth, Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon, Anthony Gormley and Bill Woodrow).
Since the end of the 1990s, Kapoor has produced a number of large works, including Taratantara (1999), a 35 metre-tall piece installed in the Baltic Flour Mills in Gateshead, England before renovation began there and Marsyas (2002), a large work of steel and PVC installed in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern.
A stone arch by Kapoor is permanently placed at the shore of a lake in Lodingen in northern Norway.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anish_Kapoor   (679 words)

  
 Tate Modern | Past Exhibitions | Exhibitions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Anish Kapoor is renowned for his enigmatic sculptural forms that permeate physical and psychological space.
Kapoor began the project in January 2002, soon realising that the only way he could challenge the daunting height of the Turbine Hall was, paradoxically, to use its length.
Anish Kapoor was born in Bombay in 1954.
www.tate.org.uk /modern/exhibitions/kapoor   (357 words)

  
 Anish Kapoor at the Hayward Gallery 1998
Anish Kapoor's work at this exhibition consisted in large-scale sculptural works, in a variety of materials, which either created various kinds of visual illusion or else reflected back images of the spectator.
Kapoor's dome is unusual in being hung from the ceiling, though not without precedent.
Kapoor talks about his work freely in numerous interviews, and has views about it - that it is not to be touched, for example.
www.selectedworks.co.uk /kapoor.html   (1279 words)

  
 KUNSTHAUS BREGENZ
Born in 1954 in Bombay, Anish Kapoor is among the most prominent figures in British Sculpture.
In 1990 Anish Kapoor represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennial and was awarded the coveted "Premio 2000" by the international jury.
Kapoor's intention is to create sculptures that don't just deal with questions of form but also address the themes of belief, passion or experiences beyond material concerns.
www.kunsthaus-bregenz.at /ehtml/aus_kapoor.htm   (592 words)

  
 ART OF THE 80'S: Kapoor
Anish Kapoor was born in Bombay, India, moving to Britain when he was 19 to attend art school.
Kapoor was heavily influenced by the Arte Povera movement in Italy in the 1960s, which endorsed the use of cast-off or devalued materials.
"...Kapoors objects are carved polystyrene coated with a mixture of earthen pigment and cement.
www.niagara.edu /cam/special/Art_of_80s/Artists/kapoorbig.html   (408 words)

  
 BBC News | UK | Into the void with Anish Kapoor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
But for Anish Kapoor, who has won considerable acclaim as well as the prestigious Turner Prize, it is his first major show in Britain.
Anish Kapoor has said that at the heart of his work is "the fear of oblivion", "emptiness" and the depiction of "the void".
Anish Kapoor was born in India in 1954.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/uk/86617.stm   (392 words)

  
 Anish Kapoor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Anish Kapoor (born 1954) is a sculptor Sculpture quick summary:
Kapoor's pieces are often simple, EHandler: no quick summary.
The hayward gallery is an art gallery within the south bank centre, situated on the south bank of the river thames, in central london, england....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/an/anish_kapoor.htm   (1983 words)

  
 Repeat - Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate Sculpture in Chicago's Millennium Park
The official name for Anish Kapoor's new 110-ton stainless steel sculpture in Chicago's Millennium Park is Cloud Gate, but that name is already being supplanted by references to "The Bean" - Chicagoan's fond nickname referring to the work's unique shape.
Originally intended to be assembled offsite and shipped to Chicago in finished form, this soon proved impracticable, and residents were able to actually watch the progress of the work's fabrication.
Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate sculpture is made up of over 100 highly-reflective stainless steel panels, each in a different unique shape.
www.lynnbecker.com /repeat/Gehry/kapoor.htm   (287 words)

  
 Millennium Park :: Art and Architecture :: Cloud Gate on SBC Plaza
Anish Kapoor (Bombay, 1954) has lived in London since the early 1970s where he began his distinguished career as a student at Hornsey College of Art and Chelsea School of Art Design.
Public collections of Kapoor's works are on view at a broad range of international cultural institutions, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC (U.S.); the Museo d'Arte Contemporanea in Prato (Italy); Musee St. Pierre, Lyon (France); and, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (Australia).
Anish Kapoor was awarded the "Premio Duemila" at the Venice Biennale in 1990, the Turner Prize Award in 1991 and was awarded an Honorary Fellowship at the London Institute in 1997 and a CBE in 2003.
www.millenniumpark.org /artandarchitecture/anish_kapoor.html   (380 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Anish Kapoor: Books: Anish Kapoor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Anish Kapoor is one of a generation of internationally acclaimed British artists who came to prominence in the 1980s.
Anish Kapoor was born in 1954 in Bombay, India, and moved to London in the early 1970s to study art.
Kapoor represented Britain at the Venice Biennale where he won the Premio Duemila, and in 1991 he was awarded the Turner Prize.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0520217411?v=glance   (679 words)

  
 Bienal - Special guests - Anish Kapoor
On the one hand, Kapoor seeks his models in the delicate, deceptive area of sensuality and sexuality (how often has the incestuous exchange of pleasure defeated the universal concealment of identity in the soft shadow of sensuality!).
Kapoor occupies the domain of modern art, whose apparently open frontiers are barred to those who, for whatever reason, do not belong there.
Kapoor contrasts this with the fluid, organic froms typical of Eastern art, whose subject embraces the vaginal.
www.uol.com.br /23bienal/especial/ieka.htm   (1614 words)

  
 Millenium Park Art Exhbit by Anish Kapoor - Animations
In July of 2004 a major art exhibit, which has been lightheartedly nicknamed “The Bean” while awaiting the official titling by its artist Anish Kapoor, was unveiled in the heart of Chicago.
The artistic designer of the piece, Anish Kapoor, was chosen from twenty different outdoor art designers from around the world to design a piece that would fit the desires of the Art Institute and the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Kapoor wanted to “make a work that would deal with the incredible skyline of Chicago and the open sky and the lake but then also be a kind of gate.” The designer of “The Bean” has designed outdoor art in Canada, Japan, and England.
www.bigtopshelters.com /kapoor.htm   (361 words)

  
 BBC - London - Entertainment - news - Taking the Tate by storm
Kapoor's work has been exhibited worldwide and is held in many private and public collections, including the Tate Collection, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam
But Kapoor remains pensive about the effect of his latest work, which now stands in what is possibly the ultimate space in which to show art.
Anish Kapoor's Marsyas is on display at Tate Modern until April 6 2003.
www.bbc.co.uk /london/entertainment/news/kapoor_091002.shtml   (600 words)

  
 Rediff On The NeT: A Silver Bean For Chicago
The 'Kapoor sculpture', as officials now call it, will also be the first major public art display of Anish Kapoor in the United States.
Born in 1954, in Bombay, Anish Kapoor went to England in the early 1970s to study art.
Kapoor's admirers are as diverse as they are numerous.
www.rediff.com /news/1999/nov/26us2.htm   (746 words)

  
 The Royal Academy of Arts : : Anish Kapoor RA
Anish Kapoor studied at Hornsey College of Art, London from 1973 to 1977 and at Chelsea School of Art, London from 1977 to 1978.
Kapoor’s first solo exhibition was held at Patrice Alexandre, Paris in 1980.
Anish Kapoor was elected Royal Academician in 1999 and has been awarded Honorary Fellowships by the London Institute and Leeds University (1997), University of Wolverhampton (1999) and the Royal Institute of British Architects (2001).
www.royalacademy.org.uk /?lid=283   (367 words)

  
 Anish Kapoor Online
Original works by Anish Kapoor available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Anish Kapoor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
All images and text on this Anish Kapoor page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/kapoor_anish.html   (326 words)

  
 British Memorial Garden New York - Design
Anish Kapoor, RA, was born in Bombay in 1954 and has lived in London since the early 1970s.
Anish Kapoor was awarded the Premio Duemila at the Venice Biennale in 1990, the Turner Prize Award in 1991 and was awarded an Honorary Fellowship at the London Institute in 1997.
Anish Kapoor is represented by the Lisson Gallery, London, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York and Galleria Massimo, Italy.
www.britishmemorialgarden.org /design.html   (3761 words)

  
 Doon Online - Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor is one of the world's most renowned and influential sculptors" - Donna De Salvo, Senior Curator Tate Modern.
Anish Kapoor won the Premio 2000 in 1990 when he represented the British Pavillion at the XLIV Venice Biennial.
Needless to say, Anish Kapoor is a dynamic dosco and a role model for the rest of us.
www.doononline.net /pages/info_features/features_spotlights/spotlights/akapoor   (353 words)

  
 Marsyas - Anish Kapoor's Epic At Tate Modern - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, exhibitions ...
Kapoor began work on the gigantic structure in January this year, exploring the potential of the immense space he had to fill through drawings and sculptural maquettes.
Anish Kapoor was born in Bombay, India in 1954, educated at the Chelsea School of Art and has lived and worked in London since the 1970s.
Kapoor has exhibited across the world, winning the Premio Duemila Prize at the Venice Bienale in 1990, the Turner Prize in 1991 and a 2001 Honorary Fellowship at the Royal Institute of British Architecture.
www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /exh/ART13875.html   (698 words)

  
 Anish Kapoor - Musée des Arts Contemporains (MAC's) Grand-Hornu : Expositie / Exhibition at GALERIES.NL
Laurent Busine is heel categoriek als men hem ondervraagt over de Anish Kapoor-tentoonstelling in het MAC’s, hij heeft geweigerd „het werk van een dergelijk groot kunstenaar op te sluiten in het van oudsher bekende”, maar integendeel moet men het “juist de vrijheid geven om andere invalshoeken en richtingen te ontdekken”.
Ze raken een creatief aspect aan van Anish Kapoor dat nog niet erg bekend is, alhoewel het volledig past in de algemene lijn van het werk van deze kunstenaar.
Het is tot op heden het enige werk van dit genre dat Anish Kapoor heeft gemaakt.
www.galeries.nl /expo.asp?exponr=18055&galnr=1641&nvg=&bond=&sessionti=775754513   (694 words)

  
 Cyn City: Anish Kapoor's "Cloud Gate" a/k/a The Jelly Bean
A major feature of Millennium Park is the 110-ton elliptical sculpture designed by the celebrated British artist Anish Kapoor, one of the most prolific and respected sculptors in the world.
Anish Kapoor revealed his chosen title for the elliptical stainless steel sculpture Cloud Gate.
Granted, this is no bad reflection Anish Kapoor, but I think we have a well known 'Stonehenge' in our midst.
cyncity.typepad.com /cyn_city/2004/07/anish_kapoors_c_1.html   (2059 words)

  
 Anish Kapoor:Celant, Germano; Kapoor, Anish; Fondazione Prada (Milan, Italy):8881581787:eCampus.com
Anish Kapoor:Celant, Germano; Kapoor, Anish; Fondazione Prada (Milan, Italy):8881581787:eCampus.com
This newly revised monograph on the prestigious sculptor Anish Kapoor has been fully updated to include Kapoor's work made between 1995 and 1998 and now spans the artist's entire career to date.
His work, known for its deceptive simplicity and bracing purity of vision, and which employs materials as diverse as stone, metal, marble, and fiberglass, has garnered attention worldwide, and is included in such collections as the Tate Gallery, London and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=8881581787   (163 words)

  
 Upcoming.org: Ending: Anish Kapoor at Barbara Gladstone Gallery (Friday, June 25, 2004)
In this new body of work, Kapoor further explores the illusions of materials and surfaces, articulating his established dialogue between form and void, dynamic and static.
Confronted with the sublime or the uncanny in such exacting works, the viewer is drawn into Kapoor?s spell, an illusion of material and color that eclipses the tension between form and emotion.
In this exhibition, Kapoor expands upon his practice, using new treatments for materials to create innovative forms, including a new large-scale stainless steel piece accompanied by other new works, that will transform and reactivate the gallery space.
upcoming.org /event/6525   (487 words)

  
 art-in.de - Anish Kapoor im Kunsthaus Bregenz (27. 09. — 16. 11. 03)
1990 vertrat Anish Kapoor auf der Biennale von Venedig Großbritannien und erhielt den begehrten Preis »Premio 2000« der internationalen Jury.
Einer der Höhepunkte der documenta IX war Kapoors Raum »Descent into Limbo« (1992): In der Mitte eines begehbaren Kubus’ öffnete sich ein schwarzes Loch von scheinbar unendlicher Tiefe in den Erdboden.
Kapoors Werk vereint die spirituellen Traditionen seiner Heimat und die Idee des Sublimen westlicher Kunsttradition.
www.art-in.de /incmeldung.php?id=487   (712 words)

  
 Lisson Gallery: Anish Kapoor 'Painting'
Renowned for his enigmatic sculptural forms, this exciting new body of work finds Kapoor continuing his exploration of metaphysical polarities: presence and absence, being and non-being, place and non-place, the solid versus the intangible.
Further to his ongoing concerns with human presence and perception, Kapoor investigates the ephemeral nature of sight, and examines the role of the psyche in our interpretation of visual stimuli.
Born in Bombay, India, Kapoor was educated at Chelsea School of Art and has lived and worked in the London since the early 1970’s.
www.artnet.com /event/48639/Anish_Kapoor_Painting.html   (472 words)

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