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One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?

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Anish Kapoor
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: March 12
Architect
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Visual Artist
Bombay
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Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor
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