Gate. This well known sculpture was made by Indian-born Anish Kapoor. Kapoor was born March 12, 1954 in Mumbai, India to Punjabi and Iraq-Jewish parents. (6) He moved to London in 1973 to study at the Hornsey College until 1977 where he went to the Chelsea School of Art for one year. In the 1980’s, Kapoor started to become recognized for his sculptures and installations while he began to use materials such as stone, aluminum and resin. Kapoor was honored with the Turner Prize for contemporary art
observers see the surface of the installation with panoramic pictures of Chicago, which are different at morning, afternoon and nighttime. Mirror surface simplicity is observed in possibility to see the most beautiful outlines of the city. As Anish Kapoor admitted, this sculpture was designed owing to inspiration from the mercury drop: its shape, color and reflections. He saw this drop in his ideas falling down and frozen right before it was about to touch the ground. Thus, such form connects two
Turner Prize winner Anish Kapoor creates striking sculptures which rely heavily upon his use of intense color and organic geometric form. Kapoor explores the sublime, wonder, and awe in his work through the notion of the void. His “voids” appear as dark spaces that lie within several of his sculptures in which there is a lack of depth perception. But how exactly does Kapoor create sculptures that captivate the viewer? What is it about his art that is able to convey such a powerful aesthetic experience
Ai Weiwei, has had an incomprehensibly tough life, living in exile for the first 16 years of his life on the Russian border, with a non-existent educational system in the surrounding area and harsh living conditions. He creates many pieces of art that convey and express the many experiences he’s had in his life. From being illegally arrested by the government to growing up in exile and being an illegal alien. Artwork created with such experiences and honest feelings can be highly moving and generally
Among the artists represented in this show were Miroslaw Balka (Polish, b. 1958), Christian Boltanski (French, b. 1944), Leonardo Drew (American, b. 1961), Felix Gonzalez-Torres (American, b. Cuba, 1957- 1996), Jim Hodges (American, b. 1957), Anish Kapoor (British, b. India, 1954), and Jac Leirner (Brazilian, b. 1961). In the poem Vanitas Vanitatum by John Webster, we are given a clear view of this movement in the art world. “ALL the flowers of the spring Meet to perfume our burying” is a beautiful