La X edizione di Art to Art, curata da tutti i curatori delle precedenti edizioni, ha visto tra i suoi protagonisti Anish Kapoor con un’opera a San Gimignano.
Anish Kapoor, born in Bombay in 1954, trained in London, where he lives and works. One of the leading figures in British sculpture of the 1980s, his works explore matter and the ambiguous boundaries between finite and infinite, solidity and transparency, geometric and organic, full and void (using light effects, reflective materials, and hollow stones).
The use of geometries and pigments typical of the Indian decorative tradition, as well as references to certain Hindu rituals, reveal the roots of an artist who links his contemporary vision of space to a concept of time distant from the Western one. In 1990 he won the “Premio Duemila” at the XLIV Biennale di Venezia; in 1991 he received the “Turner Prize”, the most prestigious award in Great Britain, and in 1992 he participated in Documenta IX. His installation for London's Tate Modern, the “Sala delle turbine”, dates from 2002.
