Anish Kapoor

Anish Kapoor is one of the most important artists of his generation. Born in Bombay and living in London since the early 1970s, he has exhibited worldwide and has works in many important public collections including the Tate Gallery, London and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The artist uses different media to explore his vision including stone, metal, marble, pigment and fibreglass. Yet these materials are magically fashioned, polished and coloured into non-objects which invoke the sublime, a condition of emptiness and darkness. Kapoor represented Britain at the Venice Blennale in 1990, where he won the prestigious Premio Duemila and in 1991 was awarded the Turner Prize.