About Anish Kapoor

Anish Kapoor (British, b. 1954) emerged as one of a highly inventive generation of British sculptors during the 1980s, and since then has created a body of work that has married a modernist sense of pure materiality with a fascination for the manipulation of form and the perception of space. Kapoor's recent metal sculptures consist primarily of simple, curved forms, usually monochromatic and brightly colored.  Their surfaces of polished stainless steel, often with brilliant enamel coatings, are highly reflective and distorting of the viewer and surroundings.  In Kapoor’s printed works, subtle gradations of color create the illusion of immersive depth and dimensionality so that they appear illuminated from within. These chromatic etchings, begun in the late 1990s with Paragon Press, relate to the artist’s earliest works: enigmatic sculptures covered with primary-colored pigments that he created while in still India in the 1970s.  Combined with western Minimalist sensibilities, their imagery is connected to the Sanskrit principle of “Bindu”, the point from which creation begins and returns.