Anish Kapoor as Henry Moore at Royal Academy in London

Anish Kapoor is the second contemporary artist, after Henry Moore in 1988, who has been chosen to exhibit at the Royal Academy in London. This is, also, the first time that a living artist will occupy all of the main galleries. Kapoor’s exhibition will take place from 26 September to 11 December 2009 at Royal Academy of Arts, and it will show the best of Kapoor art and poetic.
He was born in Bombay in 1954, his father was from India and his Jewish mother from Iraq. At the age of 19, he moved to England where he studied at Hornesey College of Art and Chelsea School of Art Design.
His works investigate about the dialectic of the opposites: male and female; light and darkness, interior and exterior; whilst a particular use of pure colours became a regular feature of his art and a symbol of the synthesis between East and West. Kappor’s artistic life is composed by two complementary phases. To the first phase belong the works of the early 80s: sculptural objects between the abstract and the natural, completely covered by pure pigment. In the 90s, he built increasing size sculptures that represent his idea of the vacuum, made tangible by some cavities that are filled or a matter that has been emptied.
Kapoor’s work has been exhibited around the world, both in museums and private galleries, including the Tate Modern in London, the MOMA in New York, the Reina Sofia in Madrid and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.