![]() At the time, Baghdadi Jews constituted the majority of the Jewish community in Mumbai. His maternal grandfather served as cantor of the synagogue in Pune. Early life and education Īnish Mikhail Kapoor was born in Mumbai, India, to an Iraqi Jewish mother and an Indian Punjabi Hindu father. ![]() ![]() and the 2017 Genesis Prize for "being one of the most influential and innovative artists of his generation and for his many years of advocacy for refugees and displaced people". Kapoor has received several distinctions and prizes, such as the Premio Duemila Prize at the XLIV Venice Biennale in 1990, the Turner Prize in 1991, the Unilever Commission for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, the Padma Bhushan by the Indian government in 2012, a knighthood in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to visual arts, an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Oxford in 2014. In 2016, he was announced as a recipient of the LennonOno Grant for Peace. Īn image of Kapoor features in the British cultural icons section of the newly designed British passport in 2015. In 2017, Kapoor designed the statuette for the 2018 Brit Awards. His notable public sculptures include Cloud Gate (2006, also known as "The Bean") in Chicago's Millennium Park Sky Mirror, exhibited at the Rockefeller Center in New York City in 2006 and Kensington Gardens in London in 2010 Temenos, at Middlehaven, Middlesbrough Leviathan, at the Grand Palais in Paris in 2011 and ArcelorMittal Orbit, commissioned as a permanent artwork for London's Olympic Park and completed in 2012. Born in Mumbai, Kapoor attended the elite all-boys Indian boarding school The Doon School, before moving to the UK to begin his art training at Hornsey College of Art and, later, Chelsea School of Art and Design. Nevertheless, the man is reportedly recovering and “almost ready to return home,” says The Art Newspaper, and Descent Into Limbo is almost ready to be reopened.Ī cubical building with a black hole in the floor, Descent Into Limbo is, according to Kapoor’s site, a “space full of darkness, not a hole in the ground.” Hopefully, a space full of darkness offers a softer landing.Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor, CBE, RA (born 12 March 1954) is a British-Indian sculptor specializing in installation art and conceptual art. ![]() It’s not clear how he managed to topple into the artwork, given that there are museum staff members monitoring the installation, according to a museum spokesperson. The local newspaper Publico first reported last week that a 60-year-old art lover had fallen into Descent Into Limbo, injuring himself and damaging the sculpture in the process. Well, it appears one visitor to the exhibition decided to see for himself if limbo really lay at the bottom of the well. It’s sort of the diametric opposite of the sculptor’s best-known work, a giant silver bean. Painted in Vantablack, the “darkest man-made substance”-a black so black it’s not even a color, it’s actually a series of nanotubes that is Kapoor’s medium of choice-it reflects so little light as to give the impression of a bottomless portal into the earth. Among the installations at the Serralves Museum’s “Anish Kapoor: Work, Thoughts, Experiments” exhibition in Porto, the first museum survey of the artist’s work in Portugal, is a dark pit, roughly 8 feet deep and 10 feet across, entitled Descent Into Limbo. ![]()
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