Anish Kapoor - Set Designer, Strange Attractors, Part II (2000)

Kapoor was born in Bombay, India in 1954. His elemental structures evoke sensuality and spirituality through dense texture, intense color, and enigmatic spaces. The artist draws inspiration from Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam. At age eighteen, Kapoor left Bombay for London to study at the Hornsey College of Art, and then at Chelsea School of Art in London . He then taught at Wolverhampton Polytechnic, and in 1982 became an artist-in-residence at the Walker Art Gallery , Liverpool . Kapoor has been awarded international prizes including the 1990 Premio Duemila of the Venice Biennale and the Turner Prize in 1991. In 1998, Kapoor designed the enormous red-domed gallery "At the Edge of the World" for the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea in Santiago de Compostela , Spain , and received a comprehensive retrospective at the Hayward Gallery, London. Kapoor lives and works in London.