Anish Kapoor

Sky Plinth

 

Sky Plinth literally brings the clouds down to the ground ‘displaying’ the changing sky-scape as a ‘monument’ on Trafalgar Square. The five concave mirrors cantilever off the plinth treating all its faces as supports. The plinth is thought of as an object which is dematerialised by the mirrors. They turn the world upside down and in so doing bring the sky down to the ground.

Biography

Anish Kapoor was born in 1954 in Bombay, India. He has lived in London since the early 1970s when he studied at Hornsey College of Art and Chelsea School of Art.

He quickly rose to prominence in the 1980s, since then he has exhibited extensively both in London and internationally; his solo shows have included venues such as Kunsthalle Basel, Tate Gallery and Hayward Gallery in London, Reina Sofia in Madrid, CAPC in Bordeaux and most recently Haus der Kunst in Munich.

Kapoor represented Britain at the XLIV Venice Biennale in 1990 when he was awarded the Premio Duemila Prize and in 1991 he received the Turner Prize. He has undertaken a number of major large-scale installations and commissions including Marsyas for the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern; Cloud Gate (a 110 ton sculpture) for Millennium Park, Chicago and Sky Mirror, at the Rockefeller Centre, New York in 2006. Anish Kapoor was awarded a CBE in 2003.