The British-Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor is one of the most decorated artists of the present. Recently, he brought the art world with a dispute to the blackest Black. Now he is 65.
“Black hole devours the Museum visitors” – this message by the summer of 2018 had to do with Astro physics. It was a Portuguese Installation of the British-Indian artist Anish Kapoor. A visitor entered the supposedly walkable black area revealed, however, as two and a half meters deep hole. The man landed, according to reports in the media, slightly injured in the hospital.
“Descent into Limbo” (“descent into limbo”) is the truly abysmal work, Anish Kapoor’s. The walls of the hole were removed by the sculptor with a high-tech acrylic paint, which absorbs the light in such a way that the abyss suggested, to be on the ground painted circle. The man likes to keep for sneaky shenanigans, about the accident Kapoor, however, showed dismay. To warn the viewer prior to the everywhere lurking illusions, rather, a Central theme of Anish Kapoor’s Work. What interested him was “the idea that objects are not necessarily so, as you to identify yourself,” said Anish Kapoor in a recent Interview.
Anish Kapoor’s Installation “descent into limbo” was a visitor almost fatal.
Verknotete steel Cathedral
And so his sculptures and installations challenge viewers for the most part, without having to physically be dangerous. Feel more confident, who the work or enters the Kapoor about the art world, made known his blood-red Orbit tower, the setting for the 2012 Olympic games in London’s Olympic Park. First of all, the joy of London, with 115 meters in height, is the largest public sculpture of Britain kept within narrow limits.
Kapoor himself described his work in an Interview: “It is asymmetrical, tilting, a mess on the knot, the elbows sticking out.” At the same time, he compared the tower with a Cathedral. For a religious building, namely the vault of the Dresden Frauenkirche, a massive Block of black limestone to the altar stone.
Controversial new landmark: the “Orbit”sculpture in London’s Olympic Park
From the Turner prize to a knight
Of the on 12. March 1954 in Bombay, now Mumbai-born Kapoor has become one of the most decorated artists of the present. In Mumbai, the son of a Hindu and a Baghdad-born Jewish mother grew up. Later, Kapoor has lived for some time in a kibbutz in Israel, before he went in the early 1970s to study art in London. Here a steep career, which led, literally, in the British art aristocracy and the Olympus of the art began. Kapoor represented Britain at the Biennale in 1990, and took part in 1992 at the Documenta IX in Kassel. Already a year earlier he had received the prestigious Turner prize. 2013 finally, he was beaten for his contributions to the visual arts for the knight.
And in fact, Kapoor was predestined, perhaps, to a kind of Commonwealth of artists who draw on the spiritual Tradition of his Indian homeland and the ideas of Western art tradition alike. Kapoor’s handling and his game with all sorts of bright, brilliant colors to be seen as references to the colours of the Indian subcontinent.
Blacker and blacker it goes: The color of “Vantablack” was originally developed for satellites. Kapoor may not use them as single artists.
Armed to the darkness
However, it is a Non-color that Kapoor in recent years – and an artist-inflamed controversy: Vantablack, the ultra black, the visitors of the exhibition in Porto undoing. The nanotechnology-based deep-black Material that absorbs 99.6% of all light-rays, was originally developed for satellites. For Kapoor’s art is excellent, because it makes three-dimensional objects as smooth surfaces appear. The artistic rights to use Vantablack Kapoor has secured exclusive. Because he said other artists use, and was kindled in the art world as a Protest.