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Anish Kapoor: Turning the World Upside Down in Kensington Gardens |
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Artist Anish Kapoor is seen reflected in his installation 'C-Curve' 2007, part of his new exhibition entitled 'Turning the World Upside Down', in Kensington Gardens, central London, Monday Sept. 27, 2010. Kapoor was born in Mumbai, India, but works from England, and the latest exhibition of his work comprises of four reflective stainless steel sculptures in Kensington Gardens, running until mid-March 2011. AP Photo/Dominic Lipinski.
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LONDON.- A major exhibition of large scale outdoor sculptures in Kensington Gardens by acclaimed London-based artist Anish Kapoor, presented jointly by The Royal Parks and the Serpentine Gallery, opens today.
The free exhibition showcases a series of major recent works never before shown together in London. Constructed from highly reflective stainless steel, the giant curved mirror surfaces will create illusory distortions of the surroundings and will be visible across large distances, creating new vistas in this famous and much-loved setting.
The sculptures are sited to contrast and reflect the changing colours, foliage and weather in Kensington Gardens. Despite their monumental scale, the works appear as pure reflection of their surroundings: the sky, trees, water, wildlife and changing seasons. The distortions in the works mirror-like surfaces call into question the viewers relationship to both the work itself and the surrounding environment.
This is the first major showing of sculptures in Kensington Gardens since the celebrated Henry Moore exhibition in 1978.
Anish Kapoor was born in Bombay in 1954 and has lived in London since the early 1970s when he studied at Hornsey College of Art and Chelsea School of Art and Design. Over the past twenty years he has exhibited extensively in London and worldwide. His solo shows have included Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2009; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 2008; Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2007; Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2003; Hayward Gallery, London, 1998 and Tate Gallery, London, 1990.
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