Anish Kapoor
Indian, 1954
Born in Bombay, India, and living and working in London, Kapoor emerged as one of Great Britain’s most important and influential sculptors in the 1980s, creating a vocabulary in raw pigments (he uses colors as symbols) and geometric and biomorphic forms. His monumental public and private pieces explore space, structure, and perception in an abstract fashion that he insists teeters on representation. His work continually touches on a myriad of metaphysical polarities, such as presence and absence, inward and outward, visible and invisible, light and dark. The viewer’s presence activates these relationships.
