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Sculpture Assignment-

Contemporary Artists

Dhara Nathwani

FSB-161448


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Anish Kapoor


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Anish Kapoor

Anish Kapoor was born on 12 March 1954. He is a British sculptor ofIndian birth. Born in Mumbai, 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 initially began exhibiting as part of New British Sculpture artscene. He went on to exhibit internationally 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.


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Anish Kapoor is a Royal Academician and was made a Commanderof the British Empire in 2003. He is also a Distinguished supporter ofthe British Humanist Association.

Kapoor was raised in an Indian home. His mother was a Jewish

immigrant from Baghdad. His father, from a Punjabi family, was ahydrographer in the Indian Navy.

Kapoor spent his early years in India, first in Mumbai, and then inDehra Dun at the Doon School. During 1971-1973, he went to Israelwith one of his two brothers. He first stayed in a kibbutz, and thenstudied electrical engineering. He then left for Britain where heattended Hornsey College of Art and Chelsea School of Art andDesign.

He achieved widespread recognition when he represented Britain atthe 1990 Venice Biennale.


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Kapoor's pieces are frequently simple, curved forms, usuallymonochromatic and brightly coloured.

His early pieces rely on powder pigment to cover the works and thefloor around them. Such use of pigment characterised his first highprofile exhibit as part of the New Sculpture exhibition at theHayward Gallery London in 1978.

This practice was inspired by the mounds of brightly colouredpigment in the markets and temples of India.

His later works are made of solid, quarried stone, many of whichhave 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).

The use of red wax is also part of his current repertoire, evocativeof flesh, blood and transfiguration.


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Kapoor has produced a number of large works, including

Taratantara , 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 (320 m2) Turbine Hall of TateModern.

A stone arch by Kapoor is permanently placed at the shore of a lake

in Lodingen 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.

Kapoor has also been commissioned to produce five pieces of

public art by Tees Valley Regeneration collectively known as the

"Tees Valley Giants.


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In 2009 Anish Kapoor became the first Guest Artistic Director of

Brighton Festival.

He also created 2 new works: a large site-specific work entitled The

Dismemberment of Jeanne dArc and a performance based

installation entitled Imagined Monochrome.

In 2009, Anish Kapoor, Carsten Hller and Giuseppe Penone were

asked to create three "permanent, site-specific works in harmony

with the light and colors" of Pollino National Park, the largest

national park in Italy.


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In 2010 a new Anish Kapoor sculpture called "Turning the World UpsideDown, Jerusalem" was commissioned and installed at the Israel Museumin Jerusalem.

The sculpture is described as a "16-foot tall polished-steel hourglass" andit "reflects and reverses the Jerusalem sky and the museum's landscape, a

likely reference to the city's duality of celestial and earthly, holy andprofane.

Kapoor also designed the ArcelorMittal Orbit, a 115 metre spiral sculptureof the Olympic rings. Planned to be built in time for the 2012 OlympicGames in London, the piece will be the largest example of public art in theUK when completed.

His work is collected worldwide, notably by the Museum of Modern Art inNew York, the Tate Modern in London, Fondazione Prada in Milan, theGuggenheim 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 andthe Gladstone Gallery, New York.


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Architectural projects by Anish kapoor:

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:

(i) the recently announced Tees Valley (England) "Giants", the world's fivelargest sculptures in collaboration with Cecil Balmond of ARUP AGU,

(ii) two subway stations in Naples in collaboration with Future Systems,

(iii) an unrealised project for the Millennium Dome, London, (1995) in

collaboration with Philip Gumuchdjian,

(iv) a proposal for the Princess Diana Memorial Fountain and

(v) "Building for a Void", created for Expo '92, Seville, in collaboration with

David Connor. Taratantara (19992000) was installed at the Baltic Centre

for Contemporary Art, Gateshead and later at Piazza Plebiscito, Naples.


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Sudarshan Shetty


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Sudarshan Shetty

Born in 1961 in Mangalore, India, Sudarshan Shetty graduated in1985 with a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts from the Sir J.J. School ofArt, Bombay.

Sudarshans work since his 1995 show *Paper Moon* and onthrough *Consanguinity* of 2003, has consistently engaged with

the idea of boundaries - personal, psychological, social and fleshly;a celebration of the materials that define them and finally, a brutalnarrative of their inevitable destruction.

In its evolution, Sudarshans work, from his early paintings, to hisrecent installations and current kinetic sculpture-assemblages hasexhibited his preoccupation with the pleura and its supporting

matrix - membranes and their correspondent secretions that foldover and overflow from the personal to the public, forming boththe layers that protect and expose, and the fluids that flow betweenand interrupt the courses of human interactions.


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Sudarshans use of furniture and containers is singular and theiremployment in defining and examining the various shades ofeveryday life and its sometimes extraordinary events, is particularto the finished nature of his works.

His formal concerns have been closely connected with the kinetic

aspect of essentially inert objects a dichotomy that he has enjoyeddissecting and displaying repeatedly in his finished moving stories.

Mechanical repetition and anachronism - the potential for madnessand genius that sameness is always in the danger of providing, isanother of the artists formal preoccupations.

He stresses his commitment to the powerful and inescapable truthof the quotidian, by courageously repeating himself in conceivingand engineering works that examine this fundamental truth of thehuman condition.


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This duality of chronological misplacement and sameness which he is sopreoccupied with is also simply displayed in his concurrent use of thedigital and the analog some works give a sense of being engaged in acontinuous, solitary war using weapons from the 20th century to fight theparticular terrors of the 21st.

There is a curious characteristic of childishness in exquisitely adult-themedworks, even as the morbidity of a life close to death is displayed in otherworks so overtly child-like in their separate elements.

Sudarshans method of employing these vessels, toys and shrouds of life,living and death allows a clear view in, through the crosshairs of a mindwhere it is plain for all to see that here is how a carpenter- philosopherscientistpoet is a sonfriendhusband-lover; and is finally an artist who

believes that in the act of living, one is always condemned to beelsewhere.


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