The 10th edition of Art to Art, curated by all the curators of previous editions, featured Anish Kapoor with a work in San Gimignano.
Anish Kapoor, born in Bombay in 1954, trained in London where he lives and works. Among the leading figures of English sculpture in the 1980s, his works explore matter and the ambiguous boundaries between finite and infinite, between solidity and transparency, between geometric and organic, between full and empty (plays of light, reflective materials, hollow stones).
The use of geometries and pigments typical of Indian decorative tradition, as well as references to certain Hindu rituals, attest to the roots of an artist who links his contemporary vision of space to an idea of time far removed from the Western one. In 1990, he won the “Premio Duemila” at the XLIV Venice Biennale; in 1991, he was awarded the “Turner Prize,” the most prestigious recognition in Great Britain, and in 1992, he participated in Documenta IX. His installation for the Tate Modern in London, the “Turbine Hall,” dates from 2002.
