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BRAQUE               PETER DOIG

CHAGALL              DAMIEN HIRST     

DUBUFFET            GARY HUME

MATISSE              GRAYSON PERRY

MIRO                  MARC QUINN

PICASSO              GAVIN TURK

 

 

Biography - Anish Kapoor
Born
1954
Bombay, India. Lives and works in London
Education
1973-77
Hornsey College of Art, London
1977-78
Chelsea School of Art, London
1979
Taught at Wolverhampton Polytechnic
1982
Artist in Residence, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Awards
1991
Turner Prize Award
1992
“Premio Duemila” Venice Biennale, Italy
1997
Honorary Fellowship at the London Institute
Solo Exhibitions
2008
ICA Boston
2007
“Drawings on paper”, Barbara Gladstone, New York
 “Anish Kapoor”, Svayambh, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Nantes “Anish Kapoor”, Haus der Kunst, Munich
 “One Colour”, Galleria Continua, Beijing
2006
Sky Mirror, presented by the Public Art Fund, Rockefeller Center, New York
 Lisson Gallery, London
 “Anish Kapoor,” Centro Cultural Banco Do Brasil, Rio De Janeiro. Travels to: Centro Cultural Banco Do Brasil, Brasilia; Centro Cultural Banco Do Brasil, Sao Paulo
 “Anish Kapoor”, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
2005
“Anish Kapoor Japanese Mirrors”, Scai The Bathhouse, Tokyo
2004
“Melancholia”, MAC Grand Hornu, Belgium
2003
“My Red Homeland”, KUB, Kunsthaus Bregenz
 “Anish Kapoor”, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples Italy
 “Blood Solid”, art of this century, NY, US
 “Painting”, Lisson Gallery, London
 “Anish Kapoor”, Kukje Gallery, Seoul
 “Anish Kapoor”, Galeria Continua, Italy
 “Whiteout”, Gladstone Gallery, New York
 “Anish Kapoor”, Massimo Minini Gallery, Brescia, Italy
 2002- 2003 “Marsyas”, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London
2001
Barbara Gladstone Gallery
2000
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
 Lisson Gallery, London
 “The Edge of the World”, permanent installation at Axel Vervoordt Kanal, Wijnegem, Belgium
1999
Galeria Andre Viana, Porto, Portugal
 Scai The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
 “Installation by Anish Kapoor”, Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
1998
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela
 Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
 Lisson Gallery, London
 Hayward Gallery, London
 CAPC, Musee d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (catalogue)
 La Chapelle de la Salpetiere, Paris, “Her Blood”
1996
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
 Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany, “Um Fontana”
 Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
 Lisson Gallery, London
 Kunst-Station St. Peter, Cologne
 Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova, “Anish Kapoor. Sculptures,” Turku Finland
 Kettle’s Yard, “Anish Kapoor. Two Sculptures,” Cambridge
1995
Fondazione Prada, Milano, Italy
 Lisson Gallery, London
 De Pont, Tilburg, The Netherlands
 Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, “Gourd”
1994
Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York,
 Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel (catalogue)
 Des Moines Art Center, Iowa
 National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa
 The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
 Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, “Sculptures”
 Lisson Gallery, London
1992
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (catalogue)
 Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
 Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain
1991
Kunstverein Hannover (catalogue)
 Palacio de Velazquez, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (catalogue)
 Feuerle, Koln, “Anish Kapoor & Ban Chiang” (catalogue)
 The 6th Japan Ushimado International Art Festival, Ushimado, Japan
1990
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, “Drawings”
 British Pavilion, The 44th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. Organized by The British Council (catalogue)
 Magasin, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble
 Tate Gallery, London, “Anish Kapoor: Works on Paper”
1989
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
 Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan (catalogue)
 Lisson Gallery, London, “Void Field”
1988
Lisson Gallery, London
1987
Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney, “Anish Kapoor: Works on Paper 1975-1987” (catalogue). Traveled to Museum of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
1986
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
 University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, “Anish Kapoor: Recent Sculpture and Drawings” (catalogue)
 Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY “Sensual Transcendence: The Sculpture of Anish Kapoor” (catalogue)
 Kunstnerses Hus, Oslo, “Anish Kapoor” (catalogue)
 Kunsthalle, Basel (catalogue). Traveled to the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
 Lisson Gallery, London
 Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
 Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, “Currents: Anish Kapoor” (catalogue)
1984
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
 Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne
1983
Galerie ‘t Venster, Rotterdam, Organized by Rotterdam Arts Council, “Anish Kapoor: Beeldhouwwerken” (catalogue)
 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, “Feeling into Form” (catalogue)
 Travelled to Le Nouveau Musee, Lyon
 Lisson Gallery, London
 Lisson Gallery, London
 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1981
Coracle Press, London
1980
Patrice Alexandre, Paris (studio exhibition)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007
‘“Timer 01/Intimacy”, Milan, 30 March-16 June
 “Counterpoint III”, Louvre, Paris, 4 April-25 July
 “Artempo”, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
 “Traces du Sacre”, Centre Pompidou, Paris
 “Simply Red”, the Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia
2006
“Surprise, Surprise,” ICA, London
 “The Grand Promenade,” Hellenic Ministry of Culture, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
 “Il Buco,” Pio Monte, Rome, Italy
 “The Expanded Eye,” Kunsthaus Zurich
 “Printemps de Septembre,” Toulouse, France
 “Asia Pacific Triennale,” Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
2005
“Japanese Mirrors,” Shiraishi Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan; CAC Malaga, Spain
2004
MAC Grand-Hornu, Belgium
 Galleria Massimo Minini, Naples
2000
“Bluer”, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago
 PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, “Around 1984 : a Look at the Eighties”
 “La beauté”, Avignon, France
 “A celebration of contemporary Art”, The Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, Virginia
 Magasin 3 Stockholm, Konsthall, “Spatiotemporal - Works from the Collection” (catalogue).
 “Wounds Between Democracy and Redemption in Contemporary Art,” Moderna Museet Stockholm (catalogue)
 “In Celebration, Part II: Highlights from the Collection of Contemporary Sculpture,” Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
 “Meditations,” Madrasa Ibn Youssef, Marrakech
 “Belladonna,” Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
 “entgegen,” Mausoleum am Dom, Graz
 “Follow Me, Britische Kunst an der Unterelbe,” Stade, Germany
 “Arte Continua,” Chiesa di San Giusto and Pinacoteca Civica, Volterra, Italy
 “Cut, Cast, Assemble: Contemporary Sculpture from the Permanent Collection,” San Francisco
 Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
 “Betong,” Konsthalle Malmö, Sweden
 “Gramercy International Art Fair,” Los Angeles, CA
 “Interzones,” Uppsala Konstmuseum, Sweden
 23rd International Biennial of Sao Paolo, Brazil
 “Collections du Castello di Rivoli,” Le Nouveau Musee, Villeurbanne
 “Un siecle de Sculpture Anglaise,” Jeu de Paume, Paris
 “Dissonant Wounds: Zones of Display/Metaphors of Atrophy,” Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Anandale-On-Hudson
 “Ripple Across the Water,” Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
 “Contemporary British Printmaking, The Paragon Press, 1986 - 1995,” Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
 “Longing and Belonging, Faraway Nearby,” Santa Fe Biennial, Site Santa Fe Warehouse and the Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe
 “ARS’95,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Finland (catalogue + ill. pp. 204-205)
 “Drawing the Line Against AIDS,” 45th Venice Biennale, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy (catalogue)
 “Drawing on Sculpture,” Cohen Gallery, New York
 Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
 “Sculpture,” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City
 “Another World,” Art Tower Mito, Mito-shi Ibaraki, Japan
 “Punti Dell’Arti,” Italian Pavillion, XLV Venice Biennale
 “Bio 93: State of Siege - Obidos Bienale,” Portugal
 “River Run,” Dance performance, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. Collaboration with Laurie Booth and Hans Kuhn
 Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany. Catalogue
 “The New British Sculpture…,” University of N. Texas Art Gallery (catalogue)
 “Whitechapel Open,” Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
 “Rhizome,” Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Holland
 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
 “Anish Kapoor and Janis Provisor New Editions,” Crown Point Press, New York
 Expo ‘92, Seville, Spain (collab. w/ David Conner)
 “The 1991 Turner Prize: An Exhibition of Work by the Four Shortlisted Artists,” Tate Gallery, London (catalogue)
 “Masterworks from the Guggenheim Collection,” Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
 “Fragments,” Fifth Street Gallery, London
 “La Sculpture Contemporaine après 1970,” Foundation Daniel Templon, Fréjus, France (catalogue)
 “Trans/Mission,” Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden. Organized by Lars Nittve (catalogue)
 “Made of Stone,” Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, Belgium
 Gallery Shirakawa, Kyoto
 “British Art Now, Japan 1990-1991,” Setagaya Museum, Tokyo, Organized by the British Council (catalogue). Travelled to Fukuoka Art Museum, Nagoya City Museum, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Hyogo Prefectural Museum, Hiroshima City Museum
 “Dujourie, Fortuyn, Houshiary, Kapoor,” Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, Holland
 “Heroes of Contemporary Art,” Galerie Saqqarah, Gstaad, Switzerland (catalogue). Travelled to TransArt Exhibitions Kreishaus, Cologne
 “Made of Stone,” Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels
 “Works on Paper,” Frith Street Gallery, London
 “Affinities and Institutions. The Gerlad S. Elliott Collection of Contempoary Art,” The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (catalogue)
 “Anish Kapoor, Wolfgang Laib, Richard Long,” Galerie Le Gall Peyroulet, Paris
 “Collection 1989 à Jacques Guillot,” Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon
 “British Now: Sculpture et Autres Dessins,” Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec (catalogue)
 “1988 Carnegie International,” Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh (catalogue)
 “Starlit Waters. British Sculpture: An International Art 1968-88,” Tate Gallery, Liverpool (catalogue)
 “Britannica: 30 Ans de Sculpture,” Musee des Beaux-Arts Andre Malraux, Le Havre (catalogue). Travelled to Ecole d’Architecture de Normandie, Rouen and Musee d’Evreux, Evreux
 “La Couleur Seule, l’Experience du Monochrome,” Musee St. Pierre, Lyon (catalogue)
 “Fourth International Drawing Trienniale,” Kunsthalle Nuremburg (catalogue)
 “Europa Oggi/Europe Today,” Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Prato, Italy (catalogue)
 “Sculptors on Paper: New Work,” Madison Art Center, Wisconsin. Traveling (catalogue)
 “Works on Paper,” Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
 “Similia/Dissimilia,” Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf (catalogue). Travelled to Wallach Art Gallery, Sonnabend Gallery, and Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
 “Viewpoint: L’Art Contemporain en Grande Bretagne,” Musee d’Art Moderne, Brussels. Organized in cooperation with the British Council (catalogue)
 “British Art of the 1980’s: 1987,” Liljevachs Konstall, Stockholm, Organized by the British Council (catalogue). Travelled to Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere
 “Inside/Outside,” Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp (catalogue)
 “Juxtapositions: Recent Sculpture from England and Germany,” The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York (catalogue)
 “Sacred Spaces,” Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
 “Skulptur - 9 Kunstnere fra Storbrittanien,” Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (catalogue)
 “Sonsbeek 1986 - The International Sculpture Exhibition,” Arnhem,The Netherlands (catalogue)
 “Prospect ‘86. Eine Internationale Austellung Aktueller Kunst,” Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (catalogue)
 “General Idea, Anish Kapoor, Melisa Miller,” Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
 “Inaugural Exhibition,” Lang & O’Hara Gallery, New York
 “Dessins de Sculpteurs,” Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris
 Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
 “Entre el Objeto y la Imagen,” Palacio de Velazquez Madrid and Fundacion Caja de Pensiones, Barcelona. Organized by the British Council and Ministerio de Cultura, Spain (catalogue)
 “Vessel,” Serpentine Gallery, London
 “Currents,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (catalogue)
 “Sculptors’ Drawings,” Artspace Galleries, Aberdeen. Organized by the Scottish Arts Council. Travelled to Ayr, Lyth, Stirling, Stromness, Glasgow, and Dracos Arts Center, Athens
 “Nouvelle Biennale de Paris,” Paris (catalogue)
 “The British Show,” Organized by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney and The British Council (catalogue). Travelled to Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Queensland Art Gallery Brisbane; The Exhibition Hall, Melbourne; National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
 “7000 Eichen,” Kunsthalle, Tubingen (catalogue)
 “Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Blue?” Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
 “Three British Sculptors,” Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase
 “Anniottanta,” Organized by the Cultura del Commune de Ravenna. Travelled to Bologna, Imola, Romagna
 “20 Sculptures du FRAC Rhone-Alpes,” l’Abbaye de Tournus, Tournus, France
 “Anish Kapoor and Bill Woodrow,” Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
 “The Poetic Object,” Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (catalogue). Travelled to Arts Council Gallery, Belfast
 “An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture,” Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
 “ROSC ‘84,” Dublin, Ireland (catalogue)
 “The British Art Show: Old Allegiances and New Directions, 1979-1984.” Organized by the Arts Council of Great Britain (catalogue). Travelled to City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; Southhampton Art Gallery
 Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne, “Anish Kapoor and Bill Woodrow”
 “Transformations: New Sculpture from Britain,” XVII Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil, Organized by the British Council (catalogue). Travelled to Museo de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Museo de Arte Moderna, Mexico DF; Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkien, Lisbon
 “Eros Mythos Ironie,” Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria
 “Constellazione,” Galleria Giorgio Persano, Torino, Italy
 “New Art,” Tate Gallery, London (catalogue)
 “The Sculpture Show,” Hayward Gallery/Serpentine Gallery, London, Org. by the Arts Council of Great Britain (catalogue)
 “Sculpture 1983,” Van Krimpen Gallery, Amsterdam
 “Finland Biennale,” Helsinki
 “Beelden/Sculpture 1983,” Rotterdam Arts Council, Rotterdam (catalogue)
 “Douceur de l’Avant-Garde,” C’est Rien de le Dire, Rennes, France (catalogue)
 “Figures and Objects,” John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, (catalogue)
 “La Trottola di Sirio,” Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Siracusa, Italy, Organized by the British Council (catalogue)
 “Tema Celeste,” Museo Civico d’Arte Contemporanea, Gibellina (catalogue)
 “Aperto ‘82,” XL Biennale di Venezia, Venice (catalogue)
 “Englische Plastik Heute/British Sculpture Now,” Kunstmuseum, Luzern, Switzerland (catalogue)
 “Paris Biennale,” Paris
 “Prefiguration,” Centre d’Art Contemporain, Chambery, France
 “London/New York 1982,” Lisson Gallery, London
 “Objects and Figures: New Sculpture in Britain,” Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Organized by the Scottish Arts Council (catalogue)
 “India: Myth and Reality,” Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
 “British Sculpture Now,” Kunstmuseum, Lucern (catalogue)
 “Objects & Sculpture: Richard Deacon, Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor, Peter Randall-Page,” Institute of Contemporary Art, London (catalogue). Travelled to Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
 “Summer Show,” Serpentine Gallery, London
 “British Sculpture in the 20th Century: Part 1, Symbol and Imagination 1951-80,” Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (catalogue)
 “New Sculpture,” Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham
 “Tolly Cobbold: Eastern Arts,” 2nd National Exhibition, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Travelling
 “Whitechapel Open,” Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1978
“Northern Young Contemporaries,” Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
1975
“Young Contemporaries,” Royal Academy of Art, London
1974
“Art into Landscape 1,” Serpentine Gallery, London
Selected Public Collections
 Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo
 Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
 Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland
 Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
 Contemporary Art Society, London
 DePont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg
 Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka
 Fundacio Berardo, Lisbon
 Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
 Heide Park and Art Gallery, Victoria
 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
 Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds
 Moderna Galerija, Ljublijana
 Moderna Museet, Stockholm
 Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
 Museo National Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
 Museum Of Modern Art, New York
 Musee Saint Pierre, Lyon
 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
 Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo
 San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
 Tate Gallery, London
 Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
 Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
 Walker Art Museum and Sculpture Garden Minneapolis
 Weltkunst Foundation, Zürich
Public Commissions
1995
“Cast Iron Mountain,” Tachikawa Art Project, Japan
1998
Toronto, Canada
 Israel Museum, Jerusalem
     Anish Kapoor (born 1954) is a Turner Prize winning sculptor, born in Bombay (Mumbai), India. He moved to England in 1972, where he has lived since. He studied art, first at the Hornsey College of Art and later at the Chelsea School of Art Design.

 

In the early 1980s, Kapoor emerged as one of a number of British sculptors working in a new style and gaining international recognition for their work. Kapoor works in London, although he frequently visits India and has acknowledged that his art is inspired by both Western and Eastern cultures. His art historical influences include: Mantegna, Beuys, Barnett Newman and Yves Klein.

 

Kapoor's pieces are frequently simple, curved forms, usually monochromatic and brightly coloured. Most often, the intention is to engage the viewer, evoking mystery through the works' dark cavities, awe through their size and simple beauty, tactility through their inviting surfaces and fascination through their reflective facades. His early pieces rely on powder pigment to cover the works and the floor around them. This practice was inspired by the mounds of brightly coloured pigment in the markets and temples of India. His later works are made of solid, quarried stone, many of which have carved apertures and cavities, often alluding to, and playing with, dualities (earth-sky, matter-spirit, lightness-darkness, visible-invisible, conscious-unconscious, male-female and body-mind). His most recent works are mirror-like, reflecting or distorting the viewer and surroundings.


Cloud Gate, Millennium Park, Chicago, 2004
Created in 1985, Kapoor's work B6 sold for $1490. The work was small ( 22.00 in (height) x 15.00 in (width)), especially when compared to his later works. Since the end of the 1990s, Kapoor has produced a number of large works, including Taratantara (1999), a 35 metre-tall piece installed in the Baltic Flour Mills in Gateshead, England before renovation began there and Marsyas (2002), a large work of steel and PVC that was installed in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern. A stone arch by Kapoor is permanently placed at the shore of a lake in Lødingen in northern Norway. In 2000, one of Kapoor's works, Parabolic Waters, consisting of rapidly rotating coloured water, was shown outside the Millennium Dome in London. In 2001, Sky Mirror, a large mirror piece that reflects the sky and surroundings, was commissioned in Nottingham. In 2004, Cloud Gate, a 110-ton stainless steel sculpture, was unveiled at Millennium Park in Chicago. In the Fall of 2006, another large mirror sculpture, also enititled Sky Mirror, was shown in Rockefeller Center, New York. Soon to be completed are a memorial to the British victims of 9/11 in New York, and the design and construction of a subway station in Naples, Italy. Kapoor has also been commissioned to produce five pieces of public art by Tees Valley Regeneration (TVR) collectively known as the "Tees Valley Giants" In late 2007, a work of Kapoor's sold for $2.5 million, above its estimated value of $1.5-2 million dollars.
In 2007, Kapoor showed Svayambh, a 1.5 metre carved block of red wax that moved on rails through the Nantes Musée des Beaux-Arts as part of the Biennale estuaire; this piece was shown again in a major show at the Haus Der Kunst in Munich. Kapoor's recent work increasingly blurs the boundaries between architecture and art.
In 2008, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston exhibited Kapoor's first U.S. mid-career survey. 
                  
Anish Kapoor - Shadow II


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