ANISH KAPOOR

b. 1954

‘’If the motif of the fold in Renaissance painting was a sign of being, in their obliteration of the contour and edge we are offered nothing less than the possibility to go beyond being.”

Anish Kapoor, Indian-born British sculptor known for his use of abstract biomorphic forms and his penchant for rich colors and polished surfaces. He was also the first living artist to be given a solo show at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

Kapoor created sculptures with Vantablack, considered a ground-breaking nano-technology material, a substance so dark that it absorbs more than 99.8% of visible light. Sculptures made with Vantablack push this dynamic into radical new territory, in forms that both appear and disappear before our eyes and more unknown forces emerge through a further series of mysterious black works, some embedded in the wall, that further explore darkness as a physical and psychic reality. In these works Kapoor proposes that if the motif of the fold in Renaissance painting was a sign of being, in their obliteration of the contour and edge we are offered nothing less than the possibility to go beyond being.