Last Updated: November 30, 2017, 16:26 IST
The 2018 Brit Award designed by Anish Kapoor (Image courtesy: AFP Relaxnews)
The Brit Awards ceremony — a British equal to the USA’s Grammy Awards — might be held February 21, 2018.
A redesigned Brit Award statuette has been unveiled for the 2018 version of the British Phonographic Industry’s annual pop music awards. The 2018 award is designed by British-Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor. Anish Kapoor follows within the footsteps of Zaha Hadid, whose design was used for the 2017 award. His award takes the type of a pink, clear rectangular casing, housing a illustration of Britannia, an emblem of British unity.
Speaking of his design, Kapoor stated, “I am pleased to have designed the Brit Award for 2018. Sculpture is often a process of positive and negative form. I have made the award using both.” Prior to Hadid and Kapoor, earlier Brit Awards designers embrace Pam Hogg, Tracey Emin, Philip Treacy, Damien Hirst, Peter Blake and Vivienne Westwood.
The Brit Awards ceremony — a British equal to the USA’s Grammy Awards — might be held February 21, 2018.
In 1991, Anish Kapoor received the distinguished Turner Prize for British visible artists. He was additionally on the middle of a scandal in 2015 when his ‘Dirty Corner’ sculpture was put in within the grounds of the Versailles Palace in France. Informally dubbed “the queen’s vagina,” the 60-meter lengthy sculpture with evident sexual connotations was vandalized a number of occasions.
