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In Tate Britain
Biography
Sir Anish Kapoor (born 12 March 1954) is a British Indian sculptor specializing in installation art and conceptual art. Born in Mumbai, Kapoor has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s when he moved to study art, first at the Hornsey College of Art and later at the Chelsea School of Art and Design.
Kapoor represented Britain at the XLIV Venice Biennale in 1990, when he was awarded the Premio Duemila Prize. In 1991, he received the Turner Prize and in 2002 received the Unilever Commission for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. His notable public sculptures include Cloud Gate (2006, colloquially known as "the Bean") in Chicago's Millennium Park; Sky Mirror, exhibited at the Rockefeller Center in New York City in 2006 and Kensington Gardens in London in 2010; Temenos, at Middlehaven, Middlesbrough; Leviathan, at the Grand Palais in Paris in 2011; and ArcelorMittal Orbit, commissioned as a permanent artwork for London's Olympic Park and completed in 2012. In 2017 Kapoor designed the statuette for the 2018 Brit Awards.
Kapoor received a knighthood in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to visual arts. He was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Oxford in 2014. In 2012, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Indian government which is India's third-highest civilian award. An image of Kapoor features in the British cultural icons section of the newly designed British passport in 2015. In 2016, he was announced as a recipient of the LennonOno Grant for Peace. In February 2017 Kapoor, who is Jewish, was announced as the recipient of the US$1 million Genesis Prize, which "recognises individuals who have attained excellence and international renown in their fields and whose actions and achievements express a commitment to Jewish values, the Jewish community and the State of Israel".
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Read full Wikipedia entryArtworks
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Anish Kapoor As if to Celebrate, I Discovered a Mountain Blooming with Red Flowers
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Anish Kapoor Ishi’s Light
2003 -
Anish Kapoor Untitled
1983 -
Anish Kapoor A Wing at the Heart of Things
1990 -
Anish Kapoor [no title]
1998 -
Anish Kapoor Adam
1988–9 -
Anish Kapoor Untitled
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Anish Kapoor Untitled
1989
Film and audio
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Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor: The Walk
In September 2015, artists Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor walked across London in solidarity with refugees around the world
Features
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Art Term
New British sculpture
The term New British sculpture applies to the work of young British sculptors in the 1980s who, in reaction to …
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AAAARGH!: John Martin I
John Martin is best known for his dramatic scenes of apocalyptic destruction and biblical catastrophe. During his life his work …
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Staring into the contemporary abyss: The contemporary sublime
In the early eighteenth century Joseph Addison described the notion of the sublime as something that ‘fills the mind with …
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Tate Etc
But is it installation art?
What does the term ‘installation art’ mean? Does it apply to big dark rooms that you stumble into to watch …
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Interview
Descent into limbo
The artist Anish Kapoor discussed his new work for Tate Modern and other sculptural discoveries with the curator Heidi Reitmaier. …
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