Anish Kapoor, one of the leading sculptors working today, is the focus of a major exhibition this summer at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston’s waterfront museum. The show will feature 14 works made since 1980, a period in which Kapoor's sculptures and installations have grown increasingly ambitious and complex. The first U.S. museum survey of Kapoor's art in more than 15 years, the exhibition will premiere a new resin sculpture and feature many pieces on view for the first time in the United States. Anish Kapoor: Past, Present, Future opens May 30 and runs through September 7, 2008.

“Anish Kapoor is widely regarded as Britain’s most accomplished sculptor working today,” says Jill Medvedow, Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art. “This exhibition will afford American audiences a long overdue opportunity to experience the extraordinary clarity, subtlety, and power of his art.”

“Anish Kapoor’s works are both viscerally captivating and conceptually resonant,” says Nicholas Baume, ICA Chief Curator. “His sculptures marry a modernist sense of pure materiality with a fascination for the manipulation of form and the perception of space.”
 
Kapoor emerged as one of a highly inventive generation of British sculptors during the 1980s. His work of that period showed the influence of his Indian heritage, when the use of raw colored pigments and traces of Indian architecture provided the basis for a striking formal language. In the 1990s, these references evolved into a more abstract and complex exploration of the sculptural object as at once monumental and fleeting, present and absent, physical and ethereal. Sometimes using the materials of classical sculpture, including stone and bronze, Kapoor also developed newly applied forms of aluminum, pigment, enamel, resin, polymer, and PVC.
 
Anish Kapoor was born in Bombay, India, in 1954. He currently lives and works in London. Kapoor has had solo exhibitions in institutions around the world including the Kunsthaus Bregenz, the Museum of Modern Art, Slovenia, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and the San Diego Museum of
Contemporary Art. He has also been included in numerous international group exhibitions including the Shanghai Biennale, the Lyon Biennale, Documenta IX, and the Venice Biennale. Kapoor has created major installations for the Tate Modern, London; the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead; and Millennium Park, Chicago. In 1990, Kapoor was awarded “Premio Duemila” at the Venice Biennale, and in 1991, he was awarded the prestigious Turner Prize.
 
The exhibition Anish Kapoor: Past, Present, Future will be accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue including an interview with the curator, Nicholas Baume, and further contributions by Partha Mitter, Emeritus Professor of Art History at the University of Sussex, and Mary Jane Jacob, Professor and Chair of Sculpture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
 
The Institute of Contemporary Art, located at 100 Northern Avenue, is open Tuesday and Wednesday, 10 am – 5 pm; Thursday and Friday, 10 am – 9 pm; and Saturday and Sunday, 10 am – 5 pm. Admission is $12 adults, $10 seniors and students, and free for members and children 17 and under. Free admission on Target Free Thursday Nights, 5 - 9 pm. For more information, call 617-478-3100 or visit our Web site at www.icaboston.org.
 
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