Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor
Sir Anish Kapoor, CBE RA,is a British-Indian sculptor. Born in Bombay, Kapoor has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s when he moved to study art, first at the Hornsey College of Art and later at the Chelsea School of Art and Design...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionSculptor
Date of Birth12 March 1954
CountryIndia
space sculpture body
Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.
artist roles pursue
It's the role of the artist to pursue content
artist world problem
I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist
darkness sublime interest
What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror
reviews critics stride
If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.
levels red grew
Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level.
talking skins sculpture
If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything,
artist important stories
It is important that artists are not outside the equation, we don't stand on the sidelines. Artists are part of the story of a response, we cannot stand aside and let others make the response.
spiritual space fuzzy
One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?
important littles investing
Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important
artist vocation facade
I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade
feelings emptiness knows
You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going
circles sculpture viewers
There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
powerful proud life-is
I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.