![]() He received a CBE in 2003 and a Knighthood in 2013 for services to the visual arts.Īlso renowned for his architecturally-scaled works, public projects include: Cloud Gate (2004), Millennium Park, Chicago, USA Leviathan (2011) exhibited at 2011 Monumenta, Paris Orbit (2012), Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London Ark Nova, an inflatable concert hall created for Lucerne Festival, Japan (2013-) and Descension, (2014) most recently installed in Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York, USA (2017). In 1991 he won the Turner Prize and has gone on to receive numerous international awards including the Praemium Imperialein 2011 and Padma Bhushan in 2012. Kapoor’s latest works, using the most advanced nanotechnology, promise to be a revelation.”Īnish Kapoor represented Great Britain at the 44th Venice Biennale in 1990 where he was awarded the Premio Duemila Prize. The Gallerie dell’Accademia is the perfect site for a modern master to explore the themes that have always engaged sculptors and painters. Taco Dibbits said: “All artists, however cutting-edge and contemporary, are in debate with those who have gone before. Giulio Manieri Elia, the Accademia’s Director, said: “Kapoor, because of his original and deep research into colour, light, perspective and space, grows from the roots of Venetian Renaissance painting, investigating its essence and interacting intimately on an ideal - we could even say conceptual - level with Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Veronese and Tintoretto.” ![]() I feel a deep commitment to Venice, its architecture and its support for the contemporary arts.” The Accademia presents a wonderful and wondrous challenge. All art must engage with what went before. When, around the middle of the nineteenth century, works in the collection were sold, after the death of Manfrin, the heritage of the Gallerie dell'Accademia was enriched with twenty-one paintings including masterpieces such as Giorgione’s The Tempest and La Vecchia and works by Mantegna, Memling, Nicolò di Pietro, Girolamo Savoldo and Moretto.Īnish Kapoor said: “It’s a huge honour to be invited to engage with the collections at the Gallerie dell’ Accademia in Venice, perhaps one of the finest collections of classical painting anywhere in the world. ![]() Palazzo Manfrin was purchased in 1788 by Count Girolamo Manfrin, a wealthy tobacco merchant who transformed the first floor of the building into a picture gallery which quickly became one of Venice’s major tourist attractions visited by among others Antonio Canova, Lord Byron, John Ruskin and Edouard Manet. The Gallerie dell'Accademia's Director, Giulio Manieri Elia, the curator of the exhibition, Taco Dibbits and Kapoor, announced the additional presentation of a group of important works at the historic Palazzo Manfrin, where some of the most famous works in the Gallerie dell'Accademia’s collection originally hung. Ground-breaking new works, created using carbon nanotechnology, will be shown for the first time, as well as recent paintings and sculpture that are testament to the vitality and visionary nature of Kapoor’s current practice. The exhibition will have retrospective elements alongside newer bodies of work, presenting key moments in the artist’s career. Kapoor will be first British artist to hold a solo exhibition at the Gallerie dell'Accademia. Anish Kapoor announces Venice Biennale exhibition across Gallerie dell'Accademia and Palazzo ManfrinĪt a press conference held this morning at the Gallerie dell'Accademia, Anish Kapoor announced the presentation of a major two-part exhibition across the historic Gallerie dell'Accademia and the Palazzo Manfrin in Venice during the Venice Biennale, opening on 20 April 2022 and running until 9 October 2022.
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