I am interested in sculpture that manipulates the viewer into a specific relation with both space and time. Time, on two levels; one narratively and … - Anish Kapoor

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I am interested in sculpture that manipulates the viewer into a specific relation with both space and time. Time, on two levels; one narratively and cinematically as a matter of the passage through the work, and the other as a literal elongation of the moment. This has to do with form and colour and the propensity of colour to induce reverie. Consequently, I hope, an elongation of time. Space is as complex, the space contained in an objectmust be bigger than the object which contains it. My aim is to separate the object from its object-hood.

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About Anish Kapoor

Sir Anish Kapoor (born March 12, 1954) is an Indian-born sculptor who is based in London. He settled in London during the early 1970s as a student, initially at the Hornsey College of Art and later at the Chelsea School of Art and Design. Kapoor has received many awards for his sculptures including the: Premio Duemila Prize, Turner Prize, his Knighthood in 2013 and Indian civilian award of Padma Bhushan. Some of his public sculptures are "Cloud Gate" in Chicago's Millennium Park; "Sky Mirror" exhibited at the Rockefeller Center in New York in 2006 and Kensington Gardens in London in 2010; "Temenos", at Middlehaven, Middlesbrough; "Leviathanat" the Grand Palais in Paris in 2011.

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Alternative Names: Sir Anish Kapoor Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor Anish Mikhail Kapoor
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Do you know there’s a wonderful Christian idea in which Thomas stretches his hands out to try to touch Christ’s wound and Christ says ‘Noli me tangere’ (do not touch me). What your eyes see your hands will always try to affirm. Much of dealing with the non-material is about this confusion between the hand and the eye, the ear and the eye, when the thing that you look at is uncertain, your body demands a kind of readjustment, it demands certainty. Something happens to where you are, to space; time changes. Time, I think, becomes slower. The mystical truth of art is time.

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