Sir Anish Kapoor CBE RA is one of the most important and influential contemporary artists working presently, who is best known for his dominating sculptural installations and conceptual artworks.
Kapoor first turned to art in 1973 after leaving his studies in Israel to attend Hornsey College of Art and the Chelsea School of Art and Design. He rose to fame in the 1980s and 1990s with his ambitious monumental sculpture which explored conceptual dualities such as matter-spirit, lightness-darkness, and conscious-unconscious.
Since the 1990s he has become synonymous with large-scale works in reflective materials. His most notable sculptures have been the ArcelorMittal Orbit for the Olympic Park in London, Cloud Date in Chicago’s Millennium Park, and Leviathan in the Grand Palais in Paris.
