Anish Kapoor Widow

cm 461 x 1463 x 461

Anish Kapoor, born in India and trained in Europe, has been working for more than thirty years at the crossroads between two different cultural traditions: that of the East and that of the West. In 1973, he moved to London, where he studied at the Hornsey College of Art and then at the Chelsea School of Art. In 1990, he represented Britain at the 44th Venice Biennale, where he won the Premio Duemila, and the next year he was awarded the Turner Prize. His early work was steeped in his birth culture, such as the pigments he worked with in the late 1970s. In the 1980s, he turned his attention to stone and the void, emphasizing an interest in the matter that he later deepened. In the 1990s, he received both public and private commissions. His work blurs the line between sculpture and architecture, creating large-scale works that challenge viewers to shift their own point of view. One of the fundamental aspects of Kapoor’s work is his capacity to transform and redefine the idea of scale, volume, and color, while his deep knowledge of materials and their properties allows him to experiment with every possible metamorphosis. "Widow" was an environmental installation that contained within it many of the key characteristics of Kapoor’s work, including his interest in organic forms, the void understood not as absence but as a place of possibility, and the physical and mental engagement of the viewer. The experience was therefore not only visual but also sonorous and involved viewers in an unexplored dimension that united the traditional space occupied by the work with that of the viewer.

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G. Celant (ed.), Anish Kapoor, Milan 1998; D. De Salvo, C. Ballmond (eds.), Anish Kapoor: Marsyas, exhibition catalogue (London, Tate Modern), London 2003; Anish Kapoor, exhibition catalogue (London, Royal Academy of Art), London 2009; D. Anfam (ed.), Anish Kapoor, London, 2009; C. Delgado (ed.), Anish Kapoor. Archaeology: Biology, Mexico City 2017.

Foto Patrizia Tocci

Purchased from Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia

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