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Anish Kapoor Tapped for 2015 Solo Show at Versailles
David Ebony
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Bombay-born London-based sculptor Anish Kapoor has joined the exclusive group of artists chosen to show their works in the fabled halls and on the hallowed grounds of Versailles, the former royal residence outside Paris. Kapoor’s show, on view from June through October 2015, follows well-received exhibitions of contemporary art at the site by Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami, Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos, and French artist Xavier Veilhan.
Xavier Veihan’s work at Versailles in 2009, The Large Carriage, welded steel, sheet metal, acrylic paint ; 280 x 1500 x 180 cm. Commissioned work by the ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Centre National des Arts Plastiques. Photo © Florian Kleinefenn. © Veilhan/Adagp, Paris, 2009.
“It’s not easy to choose an artist for Versailles,” Catherine Pégard, director of the 17th-century château, recently told the The New York Times. “It’s not a museum, a gallery or an exhibition space,” she added. Kapoor was selected, she explained, “because he has something particular to say in this setting.”
Anish Kapoor Marsyas 2002 Installation at Tate Modern © Tate Photography
Kapoor, who won the Turner Prize in 1991, and the Praemium Imperiale in 2011, has established a reputation for awe-inspiring, large-scale public installations, beginning with the monumental Marsyas, his well-received, site-specific work for the Tate’s cavernous Turbine Hall in London in 2002.
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