Anish Kapoor
©image: Johnny Shand Kydd, 2002
° 1954
Born in Bombay (IN), lives in London (GB).
'I don’t wish to make a sculpture about form… I wish to make sculpture about belief, or about passion, about experience, that is outside of material concern.'
Sculptor Anish Kapoor was raised in India, but has been living and working in England since the 1970s. During a trip to his country of birth in 1979, Kapoor rediscovers his Indian origins. Both the shapes and the symbolic use of colour in Kapoor's oeuvre reflect this Indian heritage. Nonetheless, his works always stand alone and function perfectly in a Western context. In this sense, Kapoor's oeuvre is not exotic or spiritual, but rather an investigation on the psychological and emotional powers we all carry within us, regardless of our cultural background. As he puts it himself: 'I don’t wish to make a sculpture about form… I wish to make sculpture about belief, or about passion, about experience, that is outside of material concern.'
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Works
>Anish Kapoor, Untitled, 1991.Sculpture, pigment, stone, 122 x 77 x 101 cm.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: EXTRA MUROS: Visite Genk - Genkenaren kiezen kunst. 02 July 2014 - 31 August 2014.
> Exhibition: Let's Play Museum. 10 June 2023 - 17 September 2023.
> Exhibition: The collection XXVII – East of 4°24'. 03 March 2011 - 21 August 2011.
> Exhibition: The collection XXX – The Museum of Forgotten History, with intervention by Maarten Vanden Eynde. 29 June 2012 - 16 September 2012.
> Ensemble: Collectie Vlaamse Gemeenschap.
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> Ensemble: M HKA_DEFAULT_WORKS.
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> Ensemble: Must Art Be?.
> Ensemble: NUCLEUS.