Anish Kapoor

Anish Kapoor became well known internationally in the 1980s when, in a show at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, he exhibited brightly coloured solid geometric elements. His works consisted of a series of three-dimensional forms created with raw pigments of the primary colours, initially red and white, then yellow and blue.
A characteristic of his works is the way they project from the floor and wall in order to resemble images - the cone of a mountain, the hemisphere of a circular building and the pyramid of a volcano - that seem to be, at the same time, both abstract and natural and positive and negative, but forming a synthesis in which a sense of great vitality and infinite energy prevails.

The official representative of Great Britain at the 1990 Venice Biennale and winner of the prestigious Turner Prize in 1991, the artist, who was born in Bombay in 1954 and lives in London, aims "to make objects that don't resemble anything else... [and] create things that seem to emanate from a world apart and that, through their particular strangeness, suggest new ways of seeing".
In the 1990s Kapoor developed what may be regarded as his special characteristics: individual sculptures or groups of objects covered with an almost immaterial layer of paint that transmutes the forms, sometimes crossed by mysterious cavities, into something that seems about to levitate, so that his works evoke the sublime and arouse intense physical and spiritual responses.