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‘I have a naughty schoolboy attitude’: Anish Kapoor reveals his latest epic creations
As he opens a career-spanning show in London, the Turner prize-winning artist gives us a private view of his giant studio and talks censorship, controversy and why disobedience is central to making great art In Anish Kapoor’s 3,100 sq metre studio complex in south London, photographers, assistants and gallery representatives gather in an upstairs meeting room. The artist has a staff of 23 in London – 11 studio assistants, nine people in the offices, three stone masons at a yard in Battersea – and some have been with him for decades. When he’s in town, everyone wants a piece (“It’s like The West Wing,” says one gallery rep). Anish Kapoor and his hazmat-suited assistant with some of the 31 parts of Ha Makom Continue reading...
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According to The Guardian’s source item, ‘I have a naughty schoolboy attitude’: Anish Kapoor reveals his latest epic creations, As he opens a career-spanning show in London, the Turner prize-winning artist gives us a private view of his giant studio and talks censorship, controversy and why disobedience is central to making great art In Anish Kapoor’s 3,100 sq metre studio complex in south London, photographers, assistants and gallery representatives gather in an upstairs meeting room. The artist has a staff of 23 in London – 11 studio assistants, nine people in the offices, three stone masons at a yard in Battersea – and some have been with him for decades. When he’s in town, everyone wants a piece (“It’s like The West Wing,” says one gallery rep). Anish Kapoor and his hazmat-suited assistant with some of the 31 parts of Ha Makom Continue reading…
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