Mary Jane Jacob

Anish Kapoor

This book surveys Anish Kapoor's work since 1979, with a focus on sculptures and installations made since the early 1990s. With more than ninety color images of these ambitious and complex works, three original essays, an extended interview with Kapoor, and selections from his sketchbooks, this book confirms Anish Kapoor's place as one of the most remarkable sculptors working today.

Past, Present, Future

Anish Kapoor : Grand Palais, Paris : Monumenta 2011

Leviathan

Marcus Du Sautoy

Darian Leader

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Julia Peyton-Jones

Stephanie Dieckvoss

The major outdoor sculptures by acclaimed London-based artist Anish Kapoor are currently on show in the beautiful settings of Kensington Gardens, sited to contrast and reflect the changing colours, foliage and weather. Despite their monumental scale, the works appear as pure reflection of their surroundings: the sky, trees, water, wildlife and changing seasons. The distortions in the works mirror-like surfaces call into question the viewers relationship to both the work itself and the surrounding environment. This catalogue of Kapoors installation is brilliantly illustrated with photographs of the works in situ. It is also the first monograph to feature a comprehensive overview of every one of Kapoors stainless steel sculptures.

Turning the World Upside Down

Anish Kapoor (born 1954) prefers to withhold his architectural projects from the conditions of both sculpture and architecture, underlining instead their non-secular function: "they are all about a certain kind of religious space," he has asserted. "Architectural Projects" spans over 20 years of such works, and is the first book devoted to them. It features internationally acclaimed structures such as "Marsyas" at Tate Modern in London and "Cloud Gate" in Chicago, as well as various unrealized projects and works in progress, including an eagerly awaited series of new subway stations designed for the city of Naples, which Kapoor describes as "very vulva-like," as a recognition (rather than denial) of their subterranean location. A comprehensive survey of over 40 projects is illustrated with initial sketches, drawings and architectural renderings, providing a rare insight into the inner workings of a fascinating interdisciplinary and collaborative process.

Memory

Homi K. Bhabha

Pier Luigi Tazzi

Anish Kapoor is an internationally acclaimed artist who came to prominence in the 1980s. His sculptures invoke the sublime and provoke an intense spiritual and physical response. A wide range of Kapoor's work is featured in this book including sculptures in which he explores the concept of the 'void'. Kapoor cuts deep into blocks of stone, sometimes coating the interior surfaces with a rich pigment, transforming the void into a charged, dark space. He also works with reflective surfaces which appear to engulf the viewer and the surrounding space.

Museo Santa Clara (Murcia, Spain)

Islamic mirror

Rainer Crone

Alexandra Stosch (Gräfin)

"In a distinguished career spanning thirty years, Anish Kapoor has created an ambitious vocabulary of form manifested in sculptural installation and site-specific works. Using materials as wide-ranging as stone, steel, raw pigment, wax and resin, Kapoor confronts his viewer with both the depths of imagined space and the play of surface illusion. This volume surveys the totality of Kapoor's work, with specific focus on his recent installation Svayambh ('self-creation' in Sanskrit), in which a huge block of red wax travels slowly through the museum space, leaving traces of its passage on walls and doorways. The authors provide in-depth analyses of many of Kapoor's major works, placing them in historical and philosophical context, and offering new insights both into Kapoor's work and the wider context of contemporary sculpture." --Book Jacket.

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