Edited with text by Sarah Fredholm. Text by Mari Hvattum, Pireeni Sundaralingam, Mikkel Bille, Tim Flohr Sørensen. Conversation between Anish Kapoor and Marie Nipper.
A sweeping survey on the British Indian sculptor’s phenomenologically potent 40-year practice
Pbk, 8.75 x 10.75 in. / 160 pgs / 73 color / 46 bw. | 9/17/2024 | In stock $40.00
Edited by James Attlee, Clare Chapman, Emma Ridgway. Text by Homi K. Bhabha, Julia Kristeva, Martin Kemp, Greg Hilty, Norman Rosenthal, Emma Ridgway, Chris Knight, Anish Kapoor.
A massive appraisal of a hitherto little-known aspect of Kapoor’s prodigious output
Hbk, 8.75 x 11.5 in. / 400 pgs / 327 color / 4 bw. | 9/13/2022 | Out of stock $65.00
Edited with text by Taco Dibbits. Text by Gil Anidjar, Linda Borean, Giuseppe Civitarese, Mario Codognato, Waldemar Januszczak, Carlo Rovelli, Michele Tavola. Conversation with Anish Kapoor and Homi K. Bhabha.
From the sublime to the corporeal: an exquisite career survey of Anish Kapoor
Hbk, 10.25 x 12.5 in. / 288 pgs / 200 color. | 9/20/2022 | Out of stock $75.00
Published by Strandberg Publishing. Edited with text by Sarah Fredholm. Text by Mari Hvattum, Pireeni Sundaralingam, Mikkel Bille, Tim Flohr Sørensen. Conversation between Anish Kapoor and Marie Nipper.
Renowned British Indian artist Anish Kapoor is known for his monumental and spectacular installations that explore the tension between mass and emptiness, between what can be seen and what cannot. This is evident through his works that invite viewers to gaze into his “black holes”—the paradoxical manifestations of invisibility that fundamentally challenge the experience of spectators. He incorporates a wealth of unconventional materials to form these voids and protrusions: stretched or deflated PVC skins, concave or convex mirrors, recesses carved in stone. This richly illustrated catalog delves into Kapoor’s work over the past 40 years, spotlighting select pieces emblematic of his wide-ranging practice. The volume includes extensive conversation between Kapoor and the director of ARKEN, Marie Nipper, providing ample insight into the artist’s vision for the exhibition. Three essays—by authors Mari Hvattum and Pireeni Sundaralingam and a collaborative text between anthropologists Mikkel Bille and Tom Flohr Sørensen—follow, connecting philosophical, poetic, physical and existential questions to Kapoor’s stimulating phenomenological works. One of Britain’s most renowned contemporary artists, Anish Kapoor (born in 1954) lives and works in London and Venice. He is best known for his public sculptures, such as Cloud Gate (2006), that deftly maneuver between vastly different scales. His work is collected worldwide, notably by the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern in London; and Fondazione Prada in Milan.
Published by Marsilio Arte. Edited by Arturo Galansino. Text by Dario Donnini, Rachel Boyd, Francesca Borgo, Diane Bodart, Tommaso Mozzati, Morgan Ng.
This monograph features 30 fundamental works by acclaimed Indian artist Anish Kapoor (born 1954) from the 1980s to the present day, spanning practically the entirety of his long and distinguished career. One of the most notable features of Kapoor’s works is the way they transcend their materiality. Pigment, stone, steel, wax and silicone are manipulated—carved, polished, saturated and molded—to the point of a dissolution of boundaries between the plastic and the immaterial. Color in Kapoor’s hands becomes an immersive phenomenon, containing its own spatial and illusive volume. Kapoor seeks estrangement, the erasure of ordinary references, in order to undermine the way that we are accustomed to see things and set them in a completely different perspective, creating works that act as catalysts of energy. This volume reveals the genesis of his artistic practice and investigates its language, providing new keys to its interpretation.
Published by Marsilio Arte. Edited with text by Taco Dibbits. Text by Gil Anidjar, Linda Borean, Giuseppe Civitarese, Mario Codognato, Waldemar Januszczak, Carlo Rovelli, Michele Tavola. Conversation with Anish Kapoor and Homi K. Bhabha.
Widely considered one of the most influential sculptors working today, British artist Anish Kapoor (born 1954) here constructs a career survey of his works within the exquisite Renaissance architecture of the Venetian Gallerie dell’Accademia. The full span of his oeuvre is appraised here, from his spare monochrome sculptures that evoke sublimity and awe to his more recent expressionistic sculptures and paintings, often in shades of red or blue, that call to mind dispersed bodies. Famous works include his 1992 Descent into Limbo, which, in this iteration, sets a black threatening void directly into the gallery floor, as well as his experiments with the blackest black paint, Vantablack. This monograph also includes new works created using carbon nanotechnology, and recent paintings that reflect the visionary thrust of Kapoor’s current trajectory.
Published by Walther König, Köln. Edited by James Attlee, Clare Chapman, Emma Ridgway. Text by Homi K. Bhabha, Julia Kristeva, Martin Kemp, Greg Hilty, Norman Rosenthal, Emma Ridgway, Chris Knight, Anish Kapoor.
This 400-page volume is the first publication to explore in depth the painting of British artist Anish Kapoor (born 1934). It offers a unique insight into a language that has increasingly been a focus over the last 10 years, but which has also been an integral part of his studio practice since his career began in the late 1970s. In works that sit on the cusp between abstraction and figuration, Kapoor reveals a desire to go beyond the surface that has been so famously explored in his international beloved sculptural works. Image, surface, space and time appear in sometimes delicate but often violent symmetry. With essays from such as acclaimed thinkers as Julia Kristeva and Homi K. Bhabha, with whom the artist has collaborated in articulating his distinctive visual language, this extensive survey traces the trajectory that has led Kapoor to his boldest body of work to date.
This publication brings together for the first time Anish Kapoor’s (born 1934) architectural projects and ideas spanning the last 40 years. Kapoor’s projects renegotiate the relationship not only between art and architecture but also between the very sense of space within ourselves and that of the external world. The forms he presents create spaces that blur the duality of subject and object, of interior and exterior. Monochrome fields of color, mirrored surfaces and fathomless voids all destabilize our place in the world. The more than 2,000 sketches, models, renderings and plans in this book show the journey of these forms to how they might exist in reality, as well as the spaces they inhabit or create, both outside and within us.
Published by RM/MUAC. Text by Cecilia Delgado, Catherine Lampert, Lee Ufa, Douglas Maxwell, et al.
Surveying the sculpture of Anish Kapoor (born 1945) from 1980 to 2015, this thematically organized volume examines Kapoor’s oeuvre from a variety of perspectives; contributions by critics such as Homi K. Bhabha, Julia Kristeva, Lee Ufan and Marina Warner as well as Kapoor’s own voice round out the narrative.
Published by Walther König, Köln. Edited by Norman Rosenthal. Text by Horst Bredekamp, Norman Rosenthal, Barbara Segelken, Monika Wagner.
Among the most acclaimed sculptors of his generation, Anish Kapoor (born 1954) has captured the popular imagination with his biomorphic, optically baffling public sculptures such as the famous “Cloud Gate” in Chicago’s Millennium Park and “Sky Mirror” at the Rockefeller Center in New York. The ambition of Kapoor’s imagination compels him to reach for the most sensational effects and scales in his work; as he once told an interviewer, his inspirations are “the mythical wonders of the world, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the Tower of Babel.” Published on the occasion of Kapoor’s exhibition at Martin-Gropius Bau in Berlin, this ample volume is illustrated with works spanning the length of Kapoor’s career. It also includes many new works created for the exhibition, as well as pictures of the monumental installation being conceived for the Martin-Gropius Bau’s central atrium.
Published by Hayward Gallery Publishing. Text by Michael Bracewell, Andrew Renton.
Marking the artist's first solo exhibition outside London since 1999, Anish Kapoor: Flashback remodels the conventions of the retrospective by inviting the famous sculptor to revisit his earlier works held in the collection of the British Arts Council, and using them as springboards for reflection on subsequent practice. This premise, being artist-led rather than curator-led, takes a more intuitive path through Kapoor's career--one that leads backwards, forwards and sideways, but which greatly intensifies our experience and comprehension of the work's evolution. Along this path, we see how Kapoor's sculpture has evolved from its early celebration of large-scale forms and the use of liberally applied powdered pigment to a more recent merging with architecture, as in his transformation of the Cumana station in Naples. Flashback appraises the impressive ambition and achievement of this ever-popular artist.
Published by Walther König/Koenig Books. Foreword by Julia Peyton-Jones, Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Over the fall of 2010, visitors to the serene and stately grounds of Kensington Gardens in London encountered four monumental stainless-steel sculptures by Anish Kapoor, carefully situated to reflect and distort in their mirrored surfaces the weather, the wildlife and the changing colors of the surrounding foliage. Visible from afar, Kapoor's sculptures interact with the locale with a tremendous sensitivity, while opening up whole new vistas and indeed "turning the world upside down." A tinted "Sky Mirror" disc planted in the Serpentine lake transforms the grey London sky into a dramatic and luminous red; a fluted, conical, mirrored structure seems to suck up the earth and siphon it into the sky. Illustrated with full-color plates of these works in situ, Turning the World Upside Down in Kensington Gardens is also the first Kapoor monograph to offer a comprehensive overview of all of the artist's stainless steel sculptures.
Published by Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Grand Palais. Text by Jean de Loisy.
For its fourth iteration in 2011, Monumenta has invited the Indian-born British sculptor Anish Kapoor to explore the vast scale of the nave of the Grand Palais in Paris, one of France's most beloved buildings. On the heels of Anselm Kiefer, Richard Serra and Christian Boltanski, this volume records Kapoor's response to the space.
PUBLISHER Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Grand Palais
BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 96 pgs / 50 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 9/30/2011 Active
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: FALL 2011 p. 151
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Published by Walther König, Köln. Text by Marie-Laure Bernadac.
British sculptor Anish Kapoor reveals another facet of his diverse abilities with this beautiful accordion-fold artist’s book reproducing ten previously unpublished gouache paintings. Murkily sensual and full of swelling, luminous contrast between dark and light areas, these mostly abstract paintings were executed on the double pages of an accordion notebook in January 2011. Occupying a palette of blacks and grays, with occasional intrusions from glowing oranges and purples at the page’s edge, these works evoke the interplay of recess and protrusion that so famously characterizes Kapoor’s sculpture. As daily acts of meditation, they can be said to have as their primary subject the artist’s subconscious: “what I’m trying to do is paint the interior, my interior,” he says. This volume is perhaps the most exquisite manifestation of Kapoor’s intent to date.
Published by Turner. Text by Simon Schaffer, Adam Lowe, Anish Kapoor.
Throughout his creative career, Turner Prize-winning sculptor Anish Kapoor has worked extensively with architects and engineers, and built a large body of public works that merge sculpture and architecture. Now, in a world designed using CAD programs, Kapoor argues that the next logical step in integrating design with production is to move from virtual models to 3D-printed buildings. In Unconformity and Entropy, a number of finished architectural works are fleshed out with preparatory studies and extracts from the artist's extensive technical research, illustrating his investigation of the fluid and plastic qualities of cement. Central to the project is the conceit of the use of a purpose-built machine to generate forms through which Kapoor would explore the intersection of idea and event. Extensively illustrated with original drawings, sketches and color photographs, and superbly designed, Unconformity and Entropy also includes several illuminating introductory essays.
Published by Royal Academy Publications. Text by Homi Bhabha.
One of the foremost artists of his generation, Anish Kapoor's majestic, beguiling sculptures, awesome in their size and simple beauty, at once demand a physical response and suggest a metaphysical realm. With stunning photographs of signature works, including new pieces that have never been published, Anish Kapoor is the first major monograph of this internationally renowned and popular artist.Employing intense colors and refined surfaces, and working with contrasts between form and void, and light and darkness, Kapoor's work evokes the mystical, and creates optical effects that challenge perceptual certainties. Published to accompany a major exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, this richly illustrated book traces Kapoor's artistic development over the course of a career spanning more than thirty years. Eminent scholars explore the philosophical issues pertinent to his work and examine its place in the history of modern sculpture and in the context of contemporary practice.
Widely admired for his artfully shaped mounds of vibrantly colored powder pigment, Bombay-born, London-based sculptor Anish Kapoor won the Turner Prize in 1991. Since the 1970s, Kapoor--through poetically abstract works in materials as diverse as stone, steel and glass--has explored the themes of spirituality and transcendence, a preoccupation that has its roots in his native India. This volume introduces three performative wax pieces, unlike any he has previously produced: a technician loads a nine-foot-long cannon, which sends a 40-pound blood-red wax blob shooting into the corner. The resulting trace has been described as "a giant gunshot wound." Also included is an essay by Vito Acconci, and published together here for the first time are Kapoor's works in wax from 1992 to the present and his print work from 1987 onward, enabling a closer exploration of the interplay between painting and sculpture in his oeuvre.
Since the early 1980s, Anish Kapoor's investigations into objecthood, materiality and gravity have explored the concept of the void, or "objects becoming space." His sculptures, installations and public art test the phenomenology of space and have historically been characterized by intensely tactile or reflective materials--like colored pigments, wax, fiberglass, polished stainless steel and PVC--that resist any narrative reading. This volume documents Kapoor's 2008 commission for the Deutsche Guggenheim, which travels to New York in 2009. Conceived as an intervention in the galleries that prevents any one complete viewing or experience of the work, and fabricated of Cor-Ten steel with industrial hinges and flanges exposed, the work tests the boundaries between sculpture and painting. It is considered in this volume through the lenses of philosophy, structural analysis and postcolonial and architectural theory. In addition to ample color reproductions of the work itself, this volume includes preparatory sketches and architectural renderings.
Published by Walther König, Köln. Edited by Jill Silverman. Essays by Jeremy Lewison and Laurent Busine.
Anish Kapoor is best known for his curvy, enigmatic sculptures in fiberglass, stone and stainless steel. These drawings represent a more private and personal side of his practice. This first book about the drawings ranges from the mid 1990s to the present with color saturated voids and eclipses that clearly feed and complement his sculpture. Jeremy Lewison, former Director of Collections at the Tate, who has known and worked with Kapoor for many years, places this recent work in context of early, overtly symbolic drawings, and of Modernist abstraction, in which Kapoor, like his colleagues, seeks to move beyond the decorative to the sublime. Drawings offers a host of new insights and images, and will be the standard reference on its subject.
PUBLISHER Walther König, Köln
BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 12 x 10 in. / 212 pgs / 110 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 3/1/2006 Out of print
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2006 p. 107
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Intimate yet grand, the immediacy of Anish Kapoor's large-scale sculptural works is often said to evoke the sublime. His signature use of vibrant color, dynamic material and organic forms combine to dominate, astonish and redefine the relationship between object and viewer, sculpture and space. For Kapoor, it is the act of viewing, rather than the material, that consummates the work. In the new body of work presented here, Kapoor further explores the illusions of materials and surfaces, articulating his established dialogue between form and void, dynamic and static. A new large-scale stainless steel piece is accompanied by other new works that expand upon the familiar while introducing new methods of figuration.
PUBLISHER Charta
BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 8.25 x 10.5 in. / 80 pgs / 40 color / 10 bw.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 9/2/2004 No longer our product
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: FALL 2004
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Published by Kunsthaus Bregenz. Edited by Eckard Schneider. Essays by Yehuda E. Safran, Eckard Schneider and Thomas Zaunschirm.
Anish Kapoor is one of the most influential sculptors of his generation. Kapoor sees his work as being engaged with deep-rooted metaphysical polarities: presence and absence, being and non-being, place and non-place, the solid and the intangible. Throughout Kapoor's sculptures his fascination with darkness and light is apparent; the translucent quality of the resin works, the absorbent nature of the pigment, the radiant glow of alabaster, and the fluid reflections of stainless steel and water. Through this interplay between form and light, Kapoor aspires to evoke sublime experiences, which address primal physical and psychological states. My Red Homeland presents a welcome retrospective view of Kapoor's work since the early 90s.
PUBLISHER Kunsthaus Bregenz
BOOK FORMAT Clothbound, 10 x 12 in. / 200 pgs / 150 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 3/2/2004 Out of print
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2004
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Anish Kapoor: Painting
Anish Kapoor: Make New Space. Architectural Projects
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Anish Kapoor: Symphony for a Beloved Sun
Anish Kapoor: Flashback
Anish Kapoor: Turning the World Upside Down in Kensington Gardens
Anish Kapoor: Monumenta 2011
Anish Kapoor: Sketchbook
Anish Kapoor: Unconformity and Entropy
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Anish Kapoor: Shooting Into the Corner
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Anish Kapoor: Drawings
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