Anish Kapoor To Collaborate With Red Arrows At Farnborough Air Show Project

Anish Kapoor the Turner Prize winning artist is to collaborate with the world famous aerobatic team “The Red Arrows” in an exciting new  project, which will combine art with aviation in a unique and innovative way. The project, announced by Artliner, will be realised for the Farnborough International Air Show 2016.
 
The collaboration was initiated by Artliner, the organisers behind The Wind Tunnel Project, the 6-week exhibition held in the Grade I and II listed wind tunnels of Farnborough Airport which opened to the public for the first time in July. 2014 marks the Red Arrows’ 50th Display Season at the Farnborough International Air Show.
 
Anish Kapoor said: “I am looking forward to working with the celebrated RAF Red Arrows on this exciting and innovative project which will come to fruition during the 2016 Farnborough Air Show”.
 
Founder of Artliner, Tatiana Ojjeh, said: “Through my work on the Wind Tunnel Project, I have been thinking about artists who might work well within the aviation context and after many discussions, we knew Anish was the perfect choice. We are going to bring the worlds of aviation and the visuals arts together to make something extraordinary, something that has never happened before”
 
A Red Arrows spokesperson said: “We look forward to working closely with Anish Kapoor and Artliner to combine our expertise.”
 
Anish Kapoor is one of the most influential sculptors of his generation. He was born in Bombay in 1954 and lives and works in London. He studied at Hornsey College of Art (1973–77) followed by postgraduate studies at Chelsea School of Art, London (1977–78). Recent major solo exhibitions include Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Istanbul (2013); Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (2013); Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2012); Le Grand Palais, Paris (2011); Mehboob Studios, Mumbai and National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi (2010); Royal Academy of Arts (2009) and the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London (2002). 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 (1997), the University of Wolverhampton (1999) and the Royal Institute of British Architecture (2001). His major permanent commissions include Cloud Gate (2004) for the Millennium Park in Chicago and the Arcelor Mittal Orbit for the London 2012 Olympic Park. He was elected Royal Academician in 1999 and he was knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2013.
 

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