It has been reported in the press that the famous British artist of Indian origin Anish Kapoor will apparently be given the honor of erecting a Olympic Games 2012, a huge sculpture, more than 120 meters high.
Information about exactly what Kapoor's creation will look like is still being kept secret. However, it is known that the sculpture, which should be located in the Olympic Park, will be asymmetrical and resemble a bunch of fragmented rings interlocked with each other. According to the author, this form should be in harmony with the curves of the nearby Center aquatic species sports building, built in 2008 by architect Zaha Hadid, and also echoes the five rings of the Olympic emblem. Inside the steel structure there will be lifts for visitors to enjoy views of London from above. It is also planned to equip a restaurant, however, this is associated with certain design difficulties, so the issue of including it in the project has not yet been finally resolved.
The construction of the sculpture will cost 15 million pounds. These funds were promised to be donated to London by one of the wealthiest residents of Great Britain, Lakshmi Mittal, who is a co-owner of the world's largest metallurgical company Arcelor Mittal. The sculpture will be made of steel, a material that will reflect Mittal's £10.8bn business.
Kapoor's sculpture will be the tallest in Europe.
Anish Kapoor is an Indian sculptor. He was born in Bombay; Anish Kapoor's mother was a Jewish immigrant from Baghdad, his grandfather served in a synagogue in Pune, so the future sculptor grew up in a Hindu-Jewish atmosphere.
In the very early 1970s, Kapoor moved to London to study art. He first attended Hornsey College of Art and later the Chelsea School of Art and Design.
Kapoor achieved international fame: his personal exhibitions were held at the Tate and Hayward galleries in London, as well as in Basel, Munich, Berlin, Madrid, Vienna, Boston; his sculptures decorate almost the whole world - from North America to Norway and Japan; In 1990, at the XLIV Venice Biennale, he represented Great Britain and received the "Premio Duemila" prize. In 1991, Anish was awarded the Turner Prize.
The most famous of his sculptures are
"Cloud Gate"
The sculpture is installed in the center of Chicago.
It is a monolith 20 meters long, 10 meters high and 12 meters wide.
The sculpture is made of steel and weighs 110 tons.
Despite the poetic name given to the sculpture by the author, the public simply calls it “Bob”. For the bean-shaped shape.
Mirror sculpture "Cloud Gate" in downtown Chicago. The frame is a monolithic block of stainless steel 20 meters long, 10 meters high and 12 meters wide. 100 stainless steel sheets are placed on top of the frame. The result is a giant three-dimensional mirror of a bizarre shape.
Anish's sculptures are often quite simple; he loves to use wavy, curved shapes, as well as bright colors in his work. The sculptures attract viewers with their mystery, size and beauty; At first, Kapoor covered the sculptures and the floor next to them with powder dye, which was inspired by memories of the colorful buildings of markets and temples in India.
“Svayambh”, Museum of Fine Arts in Nantes.
Later he turned to a stone noble in its simplicity, often using the motif of duality (earth-sky, matter-spirit, female-male, visible-invisible, etc.) and achieving complex shapes sculptures
And the most last works are based on reflection and its distortion - their surface is usually mirror-like.
The Indian sculptor often uses red wax, reminiscent of flesh and blood.
Among Kapoor's works there are simply gigantic sculptures - such as the 35-meter sculpture "Taratantara" (1999) in England
And this is the construction of the Tarantara sculpture (1999) at Baltic Flour Mills in Gateshead, England.
"Marsyas" (2002) Tate Gallery.
Anish Kapoor's sculpture Marsyas inspired Arvo Pärt's Symphony No. 4, Los Angeles (2008), dedicated to Michael Khodorkovsky.
A large mirror sculpture reflecting the sky is located in Nottingham, Norway. The sculpture is equipped with a special screen, without which birds flying over the structure could catch fire. The screen was built on the roof of the Nottingham Theatre, not far from the sculpture.
England; "Cloud Gate" - a 110-ton stainless steel sculpture, adorns Rockefeller Center in New York, and in 2006 another "Heavenly Mirror" was added to it.
In 2008, Anish Kapoor held a solo exhibition in Boston and at the same time created the composition “Memory” for the Guggenheim Foundation.
And in 2009, the sculptor became the first invited to the Brighton Festival artistic director. He was not only responsible for the “filling” of the event, but also personally created 4 sculptures for it (including another “Heavenly Mirror”).
As a result, such a number of spectators were attracted that the police had to direct traffic flows around the scene and carefully monitor the organization of the event to avoid a crush.
During his career, Kapoor worked a lot in the field of architecture, arguing that his work is not pure sculpture and not pure architecture, but a combination of both. Among Anish's architectural projects are not only the already mentioned metro stations in Naples, but also the project of a memorial to Princess Diana.
In September-December 2009, Kapoor had an exhibition at the Royal Academy in London, and he became the first sculptor to achieve this honor during his lifetime.
The latest “personal equipment” of the modern British artist, held within the walls of the Royal Academy, was the exhibition of Henry Moore. It took place in 1988 - two years after the death of the great sculptor.
One of the main exhibits of Anish Kapoor’s exhibition is an installation called “Shooting in the Corner.” In one of the halls of the museum there is a cannon, which is controlled by a specially hired artilleryman. Every 20 minutes he will shoot huge red wax cannonballs at the wall, which explode at a speed of 50 km/h. The artist called this work “psychodrama.” The work reminds the viewer that one of the main driving forces of the world in which we live is violence. To leave a mark in this cruel world, to make oneself known, means to commit an act of violence.
Also a monumental moving installation “Svayambh” (“self-generating” in Sanskrit). This is a 40-ton red lump of a mixture of paint, wax and Vaseline, which slowly travels around all the halls on rails specially laid for it. When passing through doorways, the lump leaves “bloody” traces.
Public art is art designed to be placed in publicly accessible areas, such as open spaces or buildings open to the public.
Anish Kapoor plans to implement The Tees Valley Giants project, which will create the largest public art objects in the world. The project will be developed with Cecil Balmond, a leading global civil engineer.
Over the next 10 years, Kapoor and Balmond plan to create five sculptures - one each in Middlesbrough, Stockton, Redcar, Hartlepool and Darlington.
The first sculpture will be located in Middlesbrough and will be called Temenos. It is reported that it will be the length of a football field (110 meters) and 50 meters high, and should consist of a column, as well as an oval ring and a regular ring, connected by weaving steel wire.
Balmond stated on this matter:
“I think it will inspire something like awe. It will be a new landscape." It is noted that Temenos's concept is similar to the Marsyas project, which Kapoor and Balmond exhibited in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern six years ago. Now "Marsyas" is stored in Norfolk in disassembled form.
The construction of Temenos will cost $6 million, and all five sculptures together will cost $30 million. The money is planned to be received from private investors and public organizations; it is known that the Middlesbrough football club will donate about $700 thousand. The entire project is the initiative of Joe Docherty, head of the Tis Valley Regeneration Trust.
In terms of the level of public indignation, Anish Kapoor can compete with Jeff Koons: his works are painted by vandals, and the artist’s decision to patent a black pigment provokes retaliatory actions. Nevertheless, Kapoor’s works are in the collections of museums around the world, and he himself has firmly established himself on the lists of the main artists of our time. Santana Preap talks about why Kapoor is more than a scandal.
Anish Kapoor's work evokes disgust and delight, sometimes at the same time. The most famous work of the sculptor was probably seen even by those far from contemporary art people - the huge mirror drop “Cloud Gate” in Chicago has become one of the most recognizable art objects in the world.
Not long ago, a scandal erupted around Anish Kapoor and his love for monochrome. The artist acquired the rights to use the blackest paint in the world: the high-tech material from which the pigment is made absorbs 99.6% of light, which brings its properties closer to a black hole. Internet users were outraged by this exclusivity, instagram Kapoor was bombarded with angry comments, and a certain artist Stuart Sample made the “pinkest” paint in the world and forbade Kapoor from buying it. In response, Anish Kapoor posted a photo of his middle finger in this very paint. Because there is no artist who strives to understand the essence of emptiness more zealously than Kapoor.
Sculpture of color
Anish Kapoor was born in 1954 in Bombay. At 19, he moved to England and studied art at Chelsea College of Art and Design. Unsatisfied with his classical education, he immediately began working with materials unconventional for sculpture. For example, with a colorful pigment that will run a red line through his artistic practice. From the pigment, Kapoor forms geometric shapes in yellow, blue and his favorite red. “I really like red,” says Kapoor. “Perhaps red is a very Indian color, and having grown up around it, I recognize it on some other level.”
Kapoor's second favorite color is blue, like that of artist Yves Klein, who patented "International Klein Blue" a couple of decades before him. For Anish Kapoor, blue becomes a symbol of metaphysical space, space and sky.
"1000 names", 1982. Resin, paint, 48 x 48 x 23 centimeters. Photo: Ela Bialkowska, Galleria Continua
"1000 names", 1982. Resin, paint, 180 x 60 x 45 centimeters. Photo: Ela Bialkowska, Galleria Continua
"1000 names", 1982. Resin, paint, 60 x 60 x 40 centimeters. Photo: Ela Bialkowska, Galleria Continua
Rich monochrome piles from the “1000 Names” series refer to his homeland, where market stalls display similar piles of spices and ritual paints. Unlike minimalist sculpture, where the signifier is identical to the signified, symbolism is always present in Kapoor’s works. In this, Anish Kapoor is similar to his favorite artist, who attaches ritual, shamanic, healing meaning to art.
Using the main resource of painting - paint, Anish Kapoor creates a sculptural, and therefore physical, sensation of color. Color becomes a direct, materially present object, rather than a means of depicting an object. The emphasis is shifted to texture and sensory perception of monochrome. Concave circles different sizes invite the viewer to immerse themselves at close range. The artist then experiments with the deformation of the paint mass. Anish Kapoor places large pieces of a mixture of pigment, wax and Vaseline on rails and passes them through doorways, which causes the mass to take the shape of the hole. In Shooting the Corner, Kapoor shoots a mass from a cannon, causing not only a tactile-visual effect, but also stimulating the viewer's sense of smell.
Using the main resource of painting - paint, Anish Kapoor creates a sculptural, and therefore physical, sensation of color.
Through the rabbit hole
Anish Kapoor turns the viewer's head with all sorts of contortions and distortions. The main theme is emptiness, hole, orifice. How can you show a hole? Only by outlining a donut around it. Architects work in a similar way, creating a form around a space, thereby delineating it. “I think I understand something about space. I believe that a sculptor works with space as much as with form,” says Kapoor.
The artist constantly plays with the viewer, confusing his sense of three-dimensional reality. Like a rabbit hole, the holes lead to exits into other dimensions. Looking at 1992's Descent into the Void, we see a black, flat circle on the floor. This is actually a hole that leads into a circular space painted with dark paint. In 2018, there was one visitor to the installation, which only makes one wonder why it was the first in more than twenty years.
Another way Anish Kapoor confuses the viewer is with mirror installations. They turn the world upside down, merge with environment and take it inside themselves, reminding a person of his own presence. The installation becomes invisible, leaving one to contemplate only what it reflects. His own image is more attractive than others, which may explain the extraordinary popularity of Chicago's Cloud Gate. The installation, based on a drop of mercury, is adored by children and tourists because it is exciting, playful and appeals to the narcissistic desire to explore oneself.
Anish Kapoor's sculptures give the experience of proportionality - a feeling of oneself in a certain space, a relationship between oneself and the installation. By playing with the perception of volumes, Kapoor allows insight into his sculptures. In 2011, the artist created the gigantic work “Leviathan” in the Paris Grand Palais. Like Alice in Wonderland, which grew to such a size that it barely fit into the house, Leviathan occupied the entire interior space of the building. Kapur refers to the biblical sea monster and the work of the same name by the philosopher Thomas Hobbes, who compares the state that devours a person with Leviathan. From the outside, the installation dominates the viewer. The blood-red interior of the Leviathan surprisingly has much more space than the outside.
Bosom of the world
Another theme of Anish Kapoor’s work is physicality and human anatomy, most often female. Unlike classical sculpture, main theme which is the form of the human body, Kapoor explores the content of the human body. Thoughts about one’s own insides often cause discomfort and even disgust, which is why viewing these sculptures is especially fascinating. Kapoor again uses red - the color of blood and organs. “This is the color of our bodies from the inside,” says the artist. “If you turn the body inside out, it will be red.” From bright red arterial blood to gruesome dismemberment, Anish Kapoor shows life from birth to decomposition. His sculptures are vital - they have the pulsation, the energy of a living being.
Kapoor's sculptures are often female; he refers to them as "her". The feminine principle is that original emptiness, and the vagina is its container. 2004's "The Origin of the World" - a black hole in an empty room - quotes Gustave Courbet's infamous work of the same name, depicting a woman's womb.
The feminine principle is that original emptiness, and the vagina is its container.
( Anish Kapoor) was born in Bombay, India. Attended The Doon School in Dehra Dun. He moved to England in 1972, where he has lived since then. He studied art at Hornsey College of Art (Middlesex University) and Chelsea School of Art Design. Anish Kapoor works in London, although he often visits India. In the early 1980s, Kapoor became known as one of the members of the New British Sculpture group. The sculptor's works are usually simple, have curved lines, monochrome and brightly colored. Early works were often coated with pigment, which covered the work and the floor around it.
Cloud Gate Chicago
The elliptical sculpture is a series of welded together and highly polished stainless steel plates that reflect the iconic city skyline and the clouds above. Built between 2004 and 2006, the sculpture is nicknamed "the bean" for its bean-shaped shape. The sculpture consists of 168 sheets of stainless steel, polished so that it outer surface has no visible seams. The dimensions of the sculpture are 10 (height) x 20 (length) x 13 (width) meters, weight - 110 tons..jpg)
Sometimes work Anisha Kapoor have a mirror surface that reflects and distorts the viewer and the surroundings. Since the late 1990s, Kapoor has created a number of large-scale works, including Taratantara (1999), a 35-meter piece installed at the Baltic Flour Mills in Gateshead, England, and Marsyas (2002), big job made of steel and polyvinyl in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern Gallery.
Installation at the Royal Academy "The Tall Tree and the Eye"
In 2000, one of the works Kapoor Parabolic Water, consisting of spinning colored water, was shown in London. In 2001, Sky Mirror, a large mirror work that reflected the sky and surrounding area, was installed in Nottingham. In 2004, Cloud Gate, a 110-ton steel sculpture, was unveiled in Chicago's Millennium Park.
In the fall of 2006, another mirror sculpture, also called Mirror of the sky, was shown at Rockefeller Center in New York.
Installation in National Museum arts 
His work is represented in museums around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Tate Modern in London, Fondazione Prada in Milan, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the De Pont Foundation in Holland and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Japan.
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Construction of "Leviathan" at the Monumenta 2011 exhibition in Grand Palace in Paris
Reflection of visitors in the work Anisha Kapoor at the Wuerth Art Museum in Erstein, near Strasbourg. The museum was created by Reinhold Wuerth, a German art collector and founder of the Wuerth Group. The photo was taken on the day of the official opening of the museum, January 25, 2008.
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Kapoor represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1990, where he was awarded the Premio Duemila; the following year he won the Turner Prize. Solo exhibitions of the sculptor's works were held at the Tate Gallery and Hayward Gallery in London, Kunsthalle Basel in Switzerland, the Reina Sofia National Museum of Art in Madrid, the National Gallery in Ottawa, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgium, the CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art in Bordeaux and the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil in Brazil.
Kapoor Anish
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Elements
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The twelve zodiac signs are also divided into three groups of qualities from four signs. Each group contains signs that have certain common qualities. Each group has its own way of expressing itself in life. Cardinal signs make a transition from one to another; overcoming, conquest, and elimination are associated with them. Fixed signs carry out embodiment, concentration, appropriation. Mutable signs prepare the transition to something else and carry out adaptation, change, assumption.
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Qualities
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Your planetary (synthetic) sign - Fish
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Anish Kapoor. Structure (components) of energy
Main characteristics
Motivation: self-foundation, will, source of motivation, center
Anish Kapoor
Sun in Pisces
You are compassionate and tolerant, kind to others and do not want to hurt anyone. You don’t always make decisions quickly, overcoming your need to escape from difficulties. You are creative, spiritual and often mystical. You are a pleasant person with charm. You easily find yourself subservient to anyone and love animals.
Emotions: sensitivity, receptivity, impressionability
Anish Kapoor
Moon in Gemini
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Intelligence: mind, reason, mind, speech, communication
Anish Kapoor
Mercury in Pisces
You have psychic abilities and finely developed intuition, you love to study and greedily absorb knowledge, rather than study textbooks. You have an excellent memory, you are thoughtful, romantic and poetic. Sometimes you hide what you really think and are only frank with close friends or family. This position of Mercury indicates duality, which leads to internal contradictions. And if you add to this that you easily succumb to the influence of others, then it is not at all surprising that you often change your mood and are too sensitive. You are very vulnerable. A harmonious environment is very important to you, since your reactions are more subconscious than conscious. You try to be an erudite person. Use your many talents and natural wit to combat your potential shortcomings.
Harmony: measure, conjugation, sympathy, coherence, values
Anish Kapoor is one of the most influential sculptors of his generation. Perhaps most famous for public sculptures that are both adventures in form and feats of engineering, Kapoor manoeuvres between vastly different scales, across numerous series of work. Immense PVC skins, stretched or deflated; concave or convex mirrors whose reflections attract and swallow the viewer; recesses carved in stone and pigmented so as to disappear: these voids and protrusions summon up deep-felt metaphysical polarities of presence and absence, concealment and revelation. Forms turn themselves inside out, womb-like, and materials are not painted but impregnated with color, as if to negate the idea of an outer surface, inviting the viewer to the inner reaches of the imagination. Kapoor's geometric forms from the early 1980s, for example, rise up from the floor and appear to be made of pure pigment, while the viscous, blood-red wax sculptures from the last ten years – kinetic and self-generating – ravage their own surfaces and explode the quiet of the gallery environment. There are resonances with mythologies of the ancient world – Indian, Egyptian, Greek and Roman – and with modern times.
Anish Kapoor was born in Mumbai, India in 1954 and lives and works in London. He studied at Hornsey College of Art, London, UK (1973–77) followed by postgraduate studies at Chelsea School of Art, London, UK (1977–78). Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Surge’ at Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2019); Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum and Imperial Ancestral Temple, Beijing, China (2019); CorpArtes, Santiago, Chile (2019); Pitzhanger Manor and Gallery, London, UK (2019); Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal (2018); ‘Descension’ at Public Art Fund, Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 1, New York, NY, USA (2017); Parque de la Memoria, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2017); MAST Foundation, Bologna, Italy (2017); Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Mexico City, Mexico (2016); Couvent de la Tourette, Eveux, France (2015); Château de Versailles, Versailles, France (2015) and The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow, Russia (2015). He represented Britain at the 44th Venice Biennale in 1990 with Void Field(1989), for which he was awarded the Premio Duemila for Best Young Artist. Kapoor won the Turner Prize in 1991 and has honorary fellowships from the University of Wolverhampton, UK (1999), the Royal Institute of British Architecture, London, UK (2001) and an honorary doctorate from the University of Oxford, UK (2014). Anish Kapoor was awarded a CBE in 2003 and a Knighthood in 2013 for services to visual arts. Large scale public projects include Cloud Gate(2004) in Millennium Park, Chicago, USA and Orbit(2012) in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London, UK and Ark Nova(2013) the world's first inflatable concert hall in Japan.