Anish Kapoor is one of the most influential sculptors of his generation. Born in Bombay, he has lived and worked in London since the early 70’s. His work has been exhibited worldwide and is held in numerous private and public collections, including the Tate Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Reina Sofia in Madrid and Stedlijk Museum in Amsterdam.

Kapoor sees his work as being engaged with deep-rooted metaphysical polarities; presence and absence, being and non-being, place and non-place and 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 and the fluid reflections of stainless steel and water. Through his interplay between form and light, Kapoor aspires to evoke sublime experiences, which address primal physical and psychological states.

Anish Kapoor won the Premio 2000 in 1990 when he represented the British Pavillion at the XLIV Venice Biennale. He was awarded the Turner Prize in 1991 and in 1992 Kapoor contributed to Documenta IX with the sculpture ‘Descent into Limbo’. In the same year Expo Seville commissioned a large architectural work entitled ‘Building for Void’’. After his Exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in 1998 and his ambitious exhibition at CAPC Bordeaux, the South Bank Show presented the first full-length television profile of Anish Kapoor, broadcast in the UK in February 1999. In 2002, Anish Kapoor filled the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern with his work for the 3 rd Unilever Commission, ‘Marsyas’, and he was also awarded a CBE in 2003.

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