Book Description
Anish Kapoor is one of the most influential sculptors of his generation. Kapoor sees his work as being engaged with deep-rooted metaphysical polarities: presence and absence, being and non-being, place and non-place, the solid and the intangible. Throughout Kapoor's sculptures his fascination with darkness and light is apparent; the translucent quality of the resin works, the absorbent nature of the pigment, the radiant glow of alabaster, and the fluid reflections of stainless steel and water. Through this interplay between form and light, Kapoor aspires to evoke sublime experiences, which address primal physical and psychological states. My Red Homeland presents a welcome retrospective view of Kapoor's work since the early 90s. Edited by Eckard Schneider.~Essays by Yehuda E. Safran, Eckard Schneider and Thomas Zaunschirm. Clothbound, 10 x 12 in./200 pgs / 150 color.
Anish Kapoor: My Red Homeland FROM THE PUBLISHER
Anish Kapoor is one of the most influential sculptors of his generation. Kapoor sees his work as being engaged with deep-rooted metaphysical polarities: presence and absence, being and non-being, place and non-place, the solid and the intangible. Throughout Kapoor's sculptures his fascination with darkness and light is apparent; the translucent quality of the resin works, the absorbent nature of the pigment, the radiant glow of alabaster, and the fluid reflections of stainless steel and water. Through this interplay between form and light, Kapoor aspires to evoke sublime experiences, which address primal physical and psychological states. My Red Homeland presents a welcome retrospective view of Kapoor's work since the early 90s.
ACCREDITATION
Anish Kapoor was born in 1954 in Bombay, India, to mixed Punjabi and Iraqi-Jewish parentage, and moved to London in the early 1970s to study at the Hornsley College of Art. Since then he has continued to live and work in the United Kingdom, and represented the latter at the 1990 Venice Biennale—where he was awarded the Premio Duemila. In 1991, he followed up by winning the Turner prize and, in 1992, was included in Documenta IX. Since then, he has had solo exhibitions at the Hayward Gallery and CAPC Bordeaux, and has created monumental works for Grant Park in Chicago and the Tate Modern in London.
Art & Photography
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