He is one of the most power sculptors of his generation, he manoeuvres between vastly different scales, across numerous series of work. Immense PVC skins stretched or deflated; concave or convex mirrors whose reflections attract and swallow the viewer; recesses carved in stone and pigmented so as to disappear: these voids and protrusions summon up deep-felt metaphysical polarities of presence and absence, concealment and revelation. 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). He was awarded a CBE in 2003 and a Knighthood in 2013 for services to visual arts. Most recently he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Oxford (2014).<\/div>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1453778224686","data":"56a6e541bb9f3"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1453778240608","data":"
Tyeb Mehta<\/b>Born in Gujarat in 1925 Tyeb Mehta spent an initial period working as a film editor in a cinema laboratory. Its interest in painting, however, took him to the Sir J.J. School of Art from where he received his diploma in 1952. Apart from several solo exhibitions, Mehta has participated in international shows like Ten Contemporary Indian Painters at Trenton in the U.S. in 1965; Deuxieme Biennial Internationale de Menton, 1974; Festival Internationale de la Peinture, and anymore.. He was awarded the Kalidas Samman by the Madhya Pradesh Government in 1988.
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