until Sunday January 27 2013
Leeum
Samsung Museum of Art
747 18 Hannam Dong Yongsan Gu
140 890 Seoul
Korea
Kapoor’s first major museum show in East Asia includes his most important works dating from the early years of his career to the present.
The exhibition houses Kapoor’s acclaimed early pigment works, as well as his Void works, large-scale monochromatic works and stainless-steel sculptures that cross the boundary between the material and the immaterial. On show also works that embody the principle of the auto-generated which transform the gallery into a vast space of creation and formation.
The exhibition is the first to occupy the museum’s entire exhibition space including the outdoor sculpture garden, where his most recent major work "Tall Tree and the Eye" and iconic stainless steel sculptures are installed.
In the early 1980s, when Kapoor was in his late twenties, his art first began to attract the attention of the public. In 1990, he received the Premio 2000 award at the Venice Biennale. In 1991, winning the prestigious Turner Prize consolidated Kapoor’s position as an established artist. Over the last ten years, Kapoor has gone from strength to strength, with such major projects as Marsyas (2002) for the Tate Modern’s Unilever series; a large permanent installation entitled Cloud Gate (2004) in Chicago’s Millennium Park; Sky Mirror (2006) in New York’s Rockefeller Centre; and Leviathan (2011), the monumental installation project in Paris’ Grand Palais as well as Orbit (2012), which was built to commemorate the 2012 London Olympics.
