Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor was born in Bombay, India in 1954. He moved to England in 1972 and has lived and worked in London since he completed his studies at the Chelsea School of Art in 1977-1978.
In 1979, Kapoor travelled to India, where his cultural memories were reawakened leading him to produce works using raw powdered pigment in vivid hues, materials which lent these works with a feeling of inner radiance and dematerialised objectivity. The bearing of Eastern and Western culture has been an inseparable part of Kapoor's practice ever since.
Kapoor became established in the international arena during the 1980s, with works that explored his interest in disparate materials and meditative structures. Kapoor has consistenly used a wide range of materials in his practice to call into question the conventional limits of architecture and to deconstruct empirical spaces, by producing forms which open out and extending into invisible expanses. Such works address the corporeal and the infinite, leading the viewer to speculate upon origins and finality.
In recent years, Kapoor has produced works where the conventional dichotomy between surface and depth is collapsed. Many of his recent works achieve this immateriality on an immense scale. Kapoor continues to employ a seemingly alchemical process to establish a feeling of weightlessness on a grand scale through his skilled transformation of materials.
