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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Italian
Anish Kapoor FROM THE PUBLISHER
This newly revised monograph on the prestigious sculptor Anish Kapoor has been fully updated to include Kapoor's work made between 1995 and 1998 and now spans the artist's entire career to date. A British artist originally from Bombay, Kapoor in 1990 showed at the Venice Biennale, and won the Turner Prize in 1991. His work, known for its deceptive simplicity and bracing purity of vision, and which employs materials as diverse as stone, metal, marble, and fiberglass, has garnered attention worldwide, and is included in such collections as the Tate Gallery, London and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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 (to be completed in 2005) and the Tate Modern in London. Kapoor was recently commissioned to create the memorial in New York City for British victims of 9/11. He lives and works in London.
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