Anish Kapoor

Kapoor made a hole in the ground and covered the inside with pigment so dark it appeared to have no bottom. Descent into Limbo (1992) looked like a painted circle on the floor until you stood at the edge and realised you were looking into an actual void. A visitor fell in at a 2018 exhibition in Porto, which confirmed the illusion was effective. He was born in Mumbai and moved to London in 1973 to study at Hornsey College of Art and Chelsea School of Art. His early sculptures are simple geometric forms covered in loose powdered pigment: bright blue, red, yellow. The pigment sits on the surface unbound, as if the colour itself were the material rather than the object underneath. The large-scale public works followed. Cloud Gate in Chicago (2006), a 110-ton polished steel bean that reflects the city skyline in its curved surface, is visited by millions of people annually. Sky Mirror, a concave steel disc that reflects the sky, has been installed in Nottingham, New York, and Kensington Gardens. The engineering is complex. The surfaces are seamless. He acquired exclusive rights to Vantablack, a material that absorbs 99.96% of visible light, making objects coated in it appear as flat black voids. The exclusivity annoyed other artists, particularly Stuart Semple, who responded by creating the 'pinkest pink' pigment and making it available to everyone except Kapoor. The dispute was silly and instructive. The passages provided do not contain information about Anish Kapoor's art movement. The biography does not state that Anish Kapoor made Vantablack. It says that he acquired exclusive rights to it. The biography does not state that Anish Kapoor got the pinkest pink. It says that Stuart Semple created the 'pinkest pink' pigment and made it available to everyone except Kapoor, in response to Kapoor acquiring exclusive rights to Vantablack. The biography states that he acquired exclusive rights to Vantablack, but it does not specify how. Anish Kapoor's work entertains, enlightens, and invites reconsideration of matter, space, and relation to the boundaries of the object. He often explores aspects of our inner world through a wide range of material processes. Anish Kapoor is known for creating unique bodies of works that entertain, enlighten and invite reconsideration of matter, space and relation to the boundaries of the object. He is also known for his pigment sculptures. The passages provided do not contain information about when Anish Kapoor acquired Vantablack. The provided texts do not explain why Anish Kapoor made Cloud Gate, often called 'the bean'. The provided texts do not contain information about why Anish Kapoor is controversial. Editorial draws on the following primary and tertiary references for Anish Kapoor.