Anish Kapoor's sculpture, Tall Tree and the Eye, outside trhe Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
Anish Kapoor's sculpture, Tall Tree and the Eye, outside the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao. Anish Kapoor, CBE, RA, Padma Bhushan (born 12 March 1954) is an Indian-born British sculptor. Born in Mumbai, Kapoor has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s when he moved to study art, first at the Hornsey College of Art and later at the Chelsea School of Art and Design. He represented Britain in the XLIV Venice Biennale in 1990, when he was awarded the Premio Duemila Prize. In 1991 he received the Turner Prize and in 2002 received the Unilever Commission for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. Notable public sculptures include Cloud Gate, Millennium Park, Chicago, Sky Mirror exhibited at the Rockefeller Center, New York in 2006 and Kensington Gardens in 2010, Temenos, at Middlehaven, Middlesbrough, Leviathan at the Grand Palais in 2011 and ArcelorMittal Orbit commissioned as a permanent artwork for the Olympic Park and completed in 2012. Anish Kapoor was elected a Royal Academician in 1999 and in 2003 he was made a Commander of the British Empire. In 2011 he was made a Commander in the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and was awarded the Japanese Praemium Imperiale. Anish Kapoor’s stainless steel sculpture. Following on from two other of his stainless steel sculptures, Cloud Gate in Chicago and Sky Mirror in the Rockefeller Centre in New York. Tall Tree and the Eye stands more than 14 metres high and consists of 73 mirror-polished spheres of Type 316 (S31600) nickel-containing stainless steel.
Size: 4064px × 2704px
Location: Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
Photo credit: © John Gaffen / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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