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Anish Kapoor (1954-)


雕塑家 Anish Kapoor 捐Genesis Prize百萬美金助難民

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卡普爾創世獎百萬獎金助難民


 
著名印裔英籍雕塑家卡普爾（Anish Kapoor），榮獲由創世獎基金會、以色列總理辦公室和以色列猶太事務局於二○一二年資助成立的創世獎（Genesis Prize），以表彰其藝術成就和一直為弱勢社群發聲的人道立場。卡普爾一直關心難民問題，二○一五年九月曾與艾未未在倫敦步行八公里，以示支持敍利亞難民。獲悉得獎後，卡普爾承諾將高達一百萬美元的獎金，用以援助難民。卡普爾一九五四年生於孟買，英國長大，其母是伊拉克猶太人，父親是印度人。卡普爾去年首度到香港舉行個展，其著名雕塑作品包括矗立倫敦奧林匹克公園的《阿塞洛米塔爾軌道塔》（ArcelorMittal Orbit）和芝加哥地標《雲門》（Cloud Gate）。
（英國　安妮）
Kingburger 快餐、Owega 腕錶、Heimekem 啤酒……大陸「創意」無極限，山寨產品五花百門。近日，新疆克拉瑪依市一座剛剛完成的雕塑，被指「抄考」印度藝術家 Anish Kapoor 的名作《雲門》(Cloud Gate)。原創者昨日更發表聲明，怒斥中國公然允許剽竊，並考慮採取法律行動。




BBC Hardtalk interviewed 2009/12/27-28

Anish Kapoor CBE (born 12 March 1954) is a sculptor. Born in Bombay (Mumbai), India, Kapoor has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s where he moved to study art, first at the Hornsey College of Art and later at the Chelsea School of Art and Design.
He gained international acclaim with solo exhibits at venues such as the Tate Gallery and Hayward Gallery in London, Kunsthalle Basel, Haus der Kunst Munich, Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin, Reina Sofia in Madrid, MAK Vienna, and the ICA Boston. He represented Britain in the XLIV Venice Biennale in 1990, when he was awarded the Premio Duemila Prize. In 1991 he received the Turner Prize. Notable public sculptures include Cloud Gate, Millennium Park, Chicago, and Sky Mirror at the Rockefeller Center, New York.
Anish Kapoor is a Royal Academician and was made a Commander of the British Empire in 2003.

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Early life and education

Kapoor was raised in an Indian home. His mother was a Jewish immigrant from Baghdad. “My mother was then only a few months old. She had an Indian-Jewish upbringing. Her father, my grandfather, was the cantor in the synagogue in Pune. At the time, the Jewish community in Bombay was quite large, mostly consisting of Baghdadi Jews.” [1] His father, from a Punjabi family, was a hydrographer in the Indian Navy. [2]
Kapoor spent his early years in India, first in Bombay (Mumbai), and then in Dehra Dun at the prestigious Doon School. As a teenager, he moved to Israel, and then to Britain to attend Hornsey College of Art and Chelsea School of Art and Design, both in London, and he has been based in that city since. [3]
He achieved widespread recognition when he represented Britain at the 1990 Venice Biennale.[4]

Works


1000 Names, 1985
Kapoor's pieces are frequently simple, curved forms, usually monochromatic and brightly coloured. Most often, the intention is to engage the viewer, producing awe through their size and simple beauty, evoking mystery through the works' dark cavities, tactility through their inviting surfaces, and fascination through their reflective facades. His early pieces rely on powder pigment to cover the works and the floor around them. Such use of pigment characterised his first high profile exhibit as part of the New Sculpture exhibition at the Hayward Gallery London in 1978. This practice was inspired by the mounds of brightly coloured pigment in the markets and temples of India. His later works are made of solid, quarried stone, many of which have carved apertures and cavities, often alluding to, and playing with, dualities (earth-sky, matter-spirit, lightness-darkness, visible-invisible, conscious-unconscious, male-female and body-mind). His most recent works are mirror-like, reflecting or distorting the viewer and surroundings. The use of red wax is also part of his current repertoire, evocative of flesh, blood and transfiguration.
Kapoor has produced a number of large works, including Taratantara (1999), a 35 metre-tall piece installed in the Baltic Flour Mills in Gateshead, England before renovation began there and Marsyas (2002), a large work of steel and flesh-coloured PVC that reached end to end of the 3,400 square foot Turbine Hall of Tate Modern. A stone arch by Kapoor is permanently placed at the shore of a lake in Lødingen in northern Norway. In 2000, one of Kapoor's works, Parabolic Waters, consisting of rapidly rotating coloured water, was shown outside the Millennium Dome in London. In 2001, Sky Mirror, a large mirror piece that reflects the sky and surroundings, was commissioned for a site outside the Nottingham Playhouse in England. In 2004, Cloud Gate, a 110-ton stainless steel sculpture, was unveiled at Millennium Park in Chicago. In the Fall of 2006, a second Sky Mirror, was installed in Rockefeller Center, New York. Soon to be completed are a memorial to the British victims of 9/11 in New York, [5] and the design and construction of two subway stations in Naples, Italy.[6] Kapoor has also been commissioned to produce five pieces of public art by Tees Valley Regeneration (TVR)[7] collectively known as the "Tees Valley Giants"[8]

Cloud Gate, Millennium Park, Chicago, 2004
In 2007, he showed Svayambh (which can be roughly translated as 'self-generated'), a 1.5 metre carved block of red wax that moved on rails through the Nantes Musée des Beaux-Arts as part of the Biennale estuaire; this piece was shown again in a major show at the Haus Der Kunst in Munich and in 2009 at the Royal Academy in London. Kapoor's recent work increasingly blurs the boundaries between architecture and art.
In 2008, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston exhibited Kapoor's first U.S. mid-career survey. [9] In the same year, Kapoor created the sculpture "Memory" in Berlin and New York for the Guggenheim Foundation.
In 2009 Anish Kapoor became the first Guest Artistic Director of Brighton Festival. As well as informing the content of the festival as a whole, Kapoor installed 4 significant sculptures for the duration of the festival; Sky Mirror at Brighton Pavilion gardens, C-Curve at The Chattri, Blood Relations (a collaboration with author Salman Rushdie) and 1000 Names, both at Fabrica. He also created 2 new works: a large site-specific work entitled ‘The Dismemberment of Jeanne d’Arc’ and a performance based installation entitled ‘Imagined Monochrome’. The public response was so overwhelming that police had to re-divert traffic around C Curve at the Chattri and exercise crowd control.
When asked if engagement with people and places is the key to successful public art, Kapoor said,
“ I’m thinking about the mythical wonders of the world, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the Tower of Babel. It’s as if the collective will comes up with something that has resonance on an individual level and so becomes mythic. I can claim to take that as a model for a way of thinking. Art can do it, and I’m going to have a damn good go. I want to occupy the territory, but the territory is an idea and a way of thinking as much as a context that generates objects.[10] ”
His work is collected worldwide, notably by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London, Fondazione Prada in Milan, the Guggenheim in Bilbao, the De Pont Foundation in Tilburg, Netherlands, and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan.
Kapoor's gallery representations include the Lisson Gallery, London and the Gladstone Gallery, New York.

Architectural projects

Throughout his career, Kapoor has worked extensively with architects and engineers. Kapoor insists that this body of work is neither pure sculpture nor pure architecture. Notable architectural projects include the recently announced Tees Valley "Giants", the worlds five largest sculptures in collaboration with Cecil Balmond of ARUP AGU, two subway stations in Naples in collaboration with Future Systems, an unrealised project for the Millennium Dome, London, (1995) in collaboration with Philip Gumuchdjian, a proposal for the Princess Diana Memorial Fountain and "Building for a Void", created for Expo '92, Seville, in collaboration with David Connor. “Taratantara” (1999-2000) was installed at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead and later at Piazza Plebiscito, Naples.
Of his vision for the Cumana station in Monte Sant'Angelo, Naples, currently under construction (as of June 2008), Kapoor has said:
“ It’s very vulva-like. The tradition of the Paris or Moscow metro is of palaces of light, underground. I wanted to do exactly the opposite – to acknowledge that we are going underground. So it’s dark, and what I’ve done is bring the tunnel up and roll it over as a form like a sock.[11] ”

Current and forthcoming exhibitions and projects


Svayambh, commonly known as "the train"
Kapoor is the first living artist to take over the Royal Academy, London,[citation needed] from September 26 - December 11, 2009.
“Shooting into the Corner”, MAK Vienna – 21 January-19 April 2009
"Blood Relations", Fabrica, Brighton 10 April - 24 May
Brighton Festival, 2-23 May 2009
Royal Academy, London - 19 September-11 December 2009
“Memory”, Guggenheim, New York – 9 October 2009

Awards

Kapoor represented Britain at the Venice Biennale, 1990, where he was awarded the Premio Duemila. The following year, he won the prestigious Turner Prize.
Solo exhibitions of his work have been held in the Tate, Royal Academy and Hayward Gallery in London, Kunsthalle Basel in Switzerland, Reina Sofia in Madrid, the National Gallery in Ottawa, Musee des arts contemporains (Grand-Hornu) in Belgium, the CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art in Bordeaux and at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil in Brazil. His work is collected worldwide, notably by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London, Fondazione Prada in Milan, the Guggenheim in Bilbao, the De Pont Foundation in the Netherlands and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan.

References

  1. ^ Weiner, Julia. "Interview: Anish Kapoor is the biggest name in art". Jewish Chronicle, September 24, 2009
  2. ^ [1]
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  4. ^ Imagine - Winter 2009 - 1. The Year of Anish Kapoor: BBC One, 11:35pm Tuesday 17th November 2009
  5. ^ British Memorial Garden
  6. ^ Neville Wakefield. "A Colossal Talent"Interior Design, 8/1/2003.
  7. ^ Tees Valley Regeneration
  8. ^ untitled
  9. ^ Sebastian Smee. Anish Kapoor challenges perceptions in a mind-bending show at the ICA. The Boston Globe, May 30, 2008.
  10. ^ Sarah Kent (December/January 2008), Mr. Big Stuff, Modern Painters, http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/29161/mr-big-stuff/, retrieved 2008-12-15
  11. ^ Gayford, Martin. "All and Nothing: Anish Kapoor on sexuality, spirituality and capturing emptiness", Apollo (magazine), 2008-06-01. Retrieved on 2009-05-28.

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