and the 2017 Genesis Prize for "being one of the most influential and innovative artists of his generation and for his many years of advocacy for refugees and displaced people". Kapoor has received several distinctions and prizes, such as the Premio Duemila Prize at the XLIV Venice Biennale in 1990, the Turner Prize in 1991, the Unilever Commission for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, the Padma Bhushan by the Indian government in 2012, a knighthood in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to visual arts, an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Oxford in 2014. ![]() In 2016, he was announced as a recipient of the LennonOno Grant for Peace. The 8ft deep hole is part of an Anish Kapoor work called Descent into Limbo The visitor, aged in his 60s, was taken to hospital but has since been discharged By Khaleda Rahman For. Īn image of Kapoor features in the British cultural icons section of the newly designed British passport in 2015. In 2017, Kapoor designed the statuette for the 2018 Brit Awards. “It’s literally,” said the artist, prophetically, “as if you could disappear into it”.His notable public sculptures include Cloud Gate (2006, also known as "The Bean") in Chicago's Millennium Park Sky Mirror, exhibited at the Rockefeller Center in New York City in 2006 and Kensington Gardens in London in 2010 Temenos, at Middlehaven, Middlesbrough Leviathan, at the Grand Palais in Paris in 2011 and ArcelorMittal Orbit, commissioned as a permanent artwork for London's Olympic Park and completed in 2012. The pigment comprises “microscopic stems of colour that are 300 times as tall as they are wide, so that about 99.6 per cent of all light just gets trapped in the network of standing segments”. Kapoor was excited as the battle to use the colour “exclusively” raged on. The exhibition is the first major show of Kapoors work in Portugal, with Descent into Limbo due to reopen soon. Kapoor told the world two years ago that he secured the rights to exclusively use Vantablack, the “blackest black” pigment, designed originally for military purposes, as it could guard stealth aircraft. Descent into Limbo is one of the 56 pieces of the artists work on display as part of Anish Kapoor: Works, Thoughts, Experiments. But he likely did not envision a connoisseur so deep inside the exhibit - an unintended brush with the colours used. Kapoor, through his acclaimed installations like the Orbit tower, which is the tallest sculpture in the UK, the Ark Nova (an inflatable concert hall), two subway stations (in Naples and Triano) appears to have always thought of human beings at the centre of his work. The sheer draw of the black ink used by Kapoor may have hypnotised him into boldly going where no man had gone before. It has not been reported if a few sips caused the descent of man. This exhibition was in Porto, Portugal’s second-largest city and well known for Bacchus’ finest offering - Port wine. It was just a black hole, a void, but he could not dodge gravity. The artwork was damaged and the man was left nursing his wounds, after finding and hitting limbo. “Descent into Limbo”, a work by the renowned artist, Anish Kapoor, turned into grim reality for a 60-year-old visitor to a museum last week, when he dropped into it.
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