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Anish Kapoor is one of the most influential sculptors of his generation. Kapoor sees his work as being engaged with deep-rooted metaphysical polarities: presence and absence, being and non-being, place and non-place, 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, the radiant glow of alabaster, and the fluid reflections of stainless steel and water. Through this interplay between form and light, Kapoor aspires to evoke sublime experiences, which address primal physical and psychological states. My Red Homeland presents a welcome retrospective view of Kapoor's work since the early 90s.

Edited by Eckard Schneider.~Essays by Yehuda E. Safran, Eckard Schneider and Thomas Zaunschirm.

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Intimate yet grand, the immediacy of Anish Kapoor's large-scale sculptural works is often said to evoke the sublime. His signature use of vibrant color, dynamic material, and organic forms combine to dominate, astonish, and redefine the relationship between object and viewer, sculpture and space. For Kapoor, it is the act of viewing, rather than the material, that consummates the work. In the new body of work presented here, Kapoor further explores the illusions of materials and surfaces, articulating his established dialogue between form and void, dynamic and static. A new large-scale stainless steel piece is accompanied by other new works that expand upon the familiar while introducing new methods of figuration. Essay by Anthony Vidler.

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Anish Kapoor is one of the world's most renowned and influential sculptors. Born in Bombay, he has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s. His output ranges from works on a human scale, including powdered pigment sculptures and convex mirrors, to massive installations, both inside buildings and in the landscape.

Taking on the challenge of the cavernous space of the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern in London, Kapoor created his largest sculpture ever: built of PVC membrane, stetched taut across massive steel hoops and hovering in mid-air, the sculpture dominates the space in a way no other artist has attempted. The creative process behind this ambitious project is documented here in specially commissioned photographs, drawings, and maquettes, and further explored in conversations with Kapoor. This is a fascinating look at what goes into a large-scale installation--from concept to realization--by one of today's leading artists. ... Read more

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This new volume presents Anish Kapoor's recent landmark installation "Taratantara", a site-specific work set in a flourmill in northeastern England, on the coast of the Baltic Sea.The work consists of a red membrane inserted into the mill's open wall--a massive, sublime object that at a distance appears flat and extradimensional, but upon a closer look reveals its concavity and its organic materiality.It is a work that plays with our perceptions, inspiring awe and a sense of transcendence. The accompanying book documents the process of creating the installation, from its earliest stages to its dismantling, along with essays exploring the piece itself and its place within this artist's astounding and singular oeuvre. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from New Statesman (1996), published by New Statesman, Ltd. on May 1, 1998. The length of the article is 954 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Anish Kapoor conveys his political message through his sculptures. The Indian artist considers himself the Salman Rushdie of sculpting and is particularly proud of exhibiting his works to a post-colonial English audience.

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Title: Into the wild blue yonder. (sculptures of Anish Kapoor)
Author: Isabel Carlisle
Publication: New Statesman (1996) (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 1998
Publisher: New Statesman, Ltd.
Volume: v127Issue: n4383Page: p50(1)

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Anish Kapoor is one of a generation of internationally acclaimedBritish artists who came to prominence in the 1980s. He has since developed adistinctive body of work in stone, marble, pigment, stainless steel, andplaster, producing sculptures that can provoke intensely spiritual and physicalfeelings. This catalog accompanies Kapoor's first major showing in a public gallery inBritain. New pieces created especially for the Hayward Gallery transform theLondon gallery space, penetrating the walls and floors and giving the impressionthat the work is growing out of the architecture. Included in the show are aseries of monumental stone sculptures weighing up to eight tons each. Much of Kapoor's recent work explores the concept of the "void." The artist cutsdeeply into the stone, sometimes coating the interior surfaces with a richpigment and transforming the void into a charged, dark space. Kapoor also workswith reflective surfaces that appear to engulf the viewer and his surroundings. Homi Bhabha's essay asks what kind of theory of art and culture emerges fromKapoor's work. Bhabha offers an "ethical" interpretation that explores the waythe sculptures force one to ponder not just art, but the role of art in theworld. He also comments on how playful Kapoor's work is in its use of color,object, and fantasy, and on how the combination of "deadly seriousness" and playare essential in his sculptures. "I am really interested in the end, at the end of the process, at the way astone is not a stone, the way the stone becomes something else, becomes light,becomes a proposition, becomes a lens."Anish Kapoor ... Read more

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This Ph.D. dissertation involves a threefold investigation of sculpture. Firstly, the interpretations are focused on particular artworks by three British sculptors: Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor, and Rachel Whiteread, respectively. The notion applied minimalism is tentatively applied to their sculptures. A primary argument is that these works are idiomatically, thematically, and theoretically founded on the heritage of American Minimalism from the 1960s. The sculptures by these three artists are seen as readings and transformations in themselves of the Minimalist sculptural idiom. Secondly, the dissertation aims at an investigation of the notion of sculpture, which is explored as a discursive term, i.e. as a working notion. This dissertation argues that the notion of sculpture, specifically in the wake of Minimal sculpture and the artworks inscribed by that category in art critical discourse, relies on the imperative or a corporeal acknowledged view/interpreter and that significant relations as regards the notion of sculpture are therefore external to a high degree. ... Read more