Artistic Truth in Virtual Space by Anish Kapoor at Nobel Week Dialogue 2017
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World Premiere of Artwork in Virtual Reality by Anish Kapoor Introducer: Daniel Birnbaum Anish Kapoor is one of the most influential sculptors working today. He was born in Bombay in 1954 and lives and works in London. He studied at Hornsey College of Art followed by postgraduate studies at Chelsea School of Art, London. Recent major solo exhibitions include Museo d-Arte Contempoanea di Roma (MACRO), Rome (2016) and Museo Universitario Arte Contemporánea (MUAC), Mexico City (2016). He represented Britain at the 44th Venice Biennale (1990), for which he was awarded the Premio Duemila. He won the Turner Prize in 1991 and has honorary fellowships from the London Institute and Leeds University, the University of Wolverhampton, the Royal Institute of British Architecture and the University of Oxford. His major permanent commissions include Cloud Gate for the Millennium Park in Chicago and Orbit for the London 2012 Olympic Park. In 2013 Ark Nova, the world's first inflatable concert hall, was launched for the Lucerne Festival in Japan. He was elected Royal Academician in 1999, awarded the Premium Imperiale in 2011, the Padma Bhushan in 2012, and 2013 was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours. In 2017 he was named the Genesis Prize Laureate.
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