Anish Kapoor

Anish Kapoor is internationally recognized as one of today’s leading contemporary artists. Renowned for sculptures that are adventures in form and engage public space, Kapoor maneuvers between vastly different scales, across numerous series of work. Immense PVC skins flayed or inflated within architecture or landscape; paintings undulating with a viscerally abject physicality; mirrors which suck the viewer into the vertiginous concavity of their aura and pigmented voids, carved into stone or within the ground beneath us that confound our perception. Kapoor’s work situates our inner world into the world around us, turned inside out, its inversions and protrusions summon up deep-felt metaphysical polarities of container and contained, being and non-being, that disrupt our quotidian reality.

Anish Kapoor was born in Mumbai, India in 1954 and lives and works in London and Venice, Italy. He studied at Hornsey College of Art, London (1973–77) followed by postgraduate studies at Chelsea School of Art, London (1977–78). Anish Kapoor was born in Mumbai, India in 1954 and lives and works in London and Venice, Italy. He studied at Hornsey College of Art, London (1973–77) followed by postgraduate studies at Chelsea School of Art, London (1977–78).