Anish Kapoor (born March 12, 1954, Mumbai India) is an Indian-born British sculptor known for his use of abstract biomorphic forms and his penchant for rich colours and polished surfaces. He was also the first living artist to be given a solo show at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
Renowned for sculptures that are adventures in form and engage public space, Kapoor maneuvers between vastly different scales, across numerous series of work. Immense PVC skins flayed or inflated within architecture or landscape; paintings undulating with a viscerally abject physicality; mirrors which suck the viewer into the vertiginous concavity of their aura and pigmented voids, carved into stone or within the ground beneath us that confound our perception. Kapoor’s work situates our inner world into the world around us, turned inside out, its inversions and protrusions summon up deep-felt metaphysical polarities of container and contained, being and non-being, that disrupt our quotidian reality.
Works showing courtesy of Eames Fine Art
Anish Kapoor (born March 12, 1954, Mumbai India) is an Indian-born British sculptor known for his use of abstract biomorphic forms and his penchant for rich colours and polished surfaces. He was also the first living artist to be given a solo show at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
Renowned for sculptures that are adventures in form and engage public space, Kapoor maneuvers between vastly different scales, across numerous series of work. Immense PVC skins flayed or inflated within architecture or landscape; paintings undulating with a viscerally abject physicality; mirrors which suck the viewer into the vertiginous concavity of their aura and pigmented voids, carved into stone or within the ground beneath us that confound our perception. Kapoor’s work situates our inner world into the world around us, turned inside out, its inversions and protrusions summon up deep-felt metaphysical polarities of container and contained, being and non-being, that disrupt our quotidian reality.
Works showing courtesy of Eames Fine Art