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
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.
artist agendas
I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work
stories neurosis
My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis
luxury doe aesthetic
One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury
reality hands accents
One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.
years two half
My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing
unto
The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.