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Anish Kapoor Is Not an Indian Artist

October 30, 2008 by Marion Maneker

Bloomberg’s Farah Nayeri profiles the Anglo artist as he sets up an exhibition at the Royal Institute of British Architects:

Can art regenerate an area? “I haven’t the faintest idea,” he replies. “That’s not something you can set out to do.” His “Cloud Gate” in Chicago “seems to have become a symbol of the city” and “changed the way people think and talk” of it [ . . . . ]

At the Royal Institute, one eye-catching display is the rust-colored entrance to Naples’s Monte Sant’Angelo subway stop, shaped like a sock turned inside out: a big mouth with up and down escalators. I ask if similarities with female body parts are deliberate. “To make new art, you have to make new form,” he replies. “I know that some of the forms are, in a way, very overtly sexual, but that’s what they are. That’s the nature of that kind of pursuit,” he says. [ . . . ]

Kapoor strives to make work on a scale that will stir the viewer the way the wonders of nature do — give “meaning,” he says. He’s clearly in tune with the trend in “experiential” art [ . . . . ]

Ultimately, Kapoor says he resents classification, especially by his Indian origins. “I think we have to resist being pigeonholed,” he says. “I’m not interested in being an Indian artist. I don’t need that as a peg to hang on.”

Anish Kapoor Turns Art Inside Out, Hates the Smell of Hairspray (Bloomberg)

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