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Anish Kapoor (born 1954 ) is a Sculptor . Born in , Beuys , Barnett Newman , and Yves Klein . In the early 1980s , Kapoor emerged as one of a number of British sculptors working in a new style and gaining international recognition for their work (the others included Richard Wentworth , Tony Cragg , Richard Deacon , Anthony Gormley , and Bill Woodrow ). Kapoor's pieces are often simple, curved forms, usually monochromatic, and frequently brightly coloured. His early pieces rely on powder (earth-sky, matter-spirit, lightness-darkness, visible-invisible, conscious-unconscious, male-female, body-mind). , Naples , 2000]] Since the end of the , Italy . {Link without Title} Kapoor's recent work increasingly blurs the boundaries between architecture and art. , Chicago , 2004]] Kapoor represented Britain in the 1990 Venice Biennale , where he was awarded the ''Premio Duemila'', and the following year he won the prestigious Turner Prize . The South Bank Show presented the first full-length television profile of Kapoor in February 1999. Solo exhibitions of Kapoor's work have been held in the Tate and Hayward Gallery in London , Kunsthalle Basel in Switzerland , Reina Sofia in Madrid , the National Gallery in Ottawa , Musee Des Arts Contemporains (Grand-Hornu) in Belgium , and the CAPC Museum Of Contemporary Art in Bordeaux . His work is collected worldwide, notably by the Museum Of Modern Art in New York , the Tate Modern in London , Fondazione Prada in Milan , the Guggenheim in Bilbao , the De Pont Foundation in the Netherlands , and the 21st Century Museum Of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa , Japan . EXTERNAL LINKS
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