Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
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Antony Gormley
dal 16/5/2003 al 25/8/2003
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16/5/2003

Antony Gormley

Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead

In this exhibition, we look at one large work which takes the architecture of the city as the material analogue of the collective body, and another which attempts for the first time to do something more ethereal: a field of Domains, derived from moulds of 240 people living in Gateshead-Newcastle. A Domain is a description of the body as a place of becoming, as a random connectivity of thin stainless steel bars.


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Antony Gormley's Domain Field: An invitation to be "moulded"

BALTIC is pleased to announce the latest exhibition by Antony Gormley from 17 May - 25 August 2003. The show combines massive expansion pieces made in iron in 1993, with the most recent and diaphanous work, Domain Field, a BALTIC commission, as well as the extensive work Allotment, made in Malmo in 1997. Since the start of the Field project in 1990, Gormley has increasingly turned his attention to the matrix of the community.

In this exhibition, we look at one large work which takes the architecture of the city as the material analogue of the collective body, and another which attempts for the first time to do something more ethereal: a field of Domains, derived from moulds of 240 people living in Gateshead-Newcastle. A Domain is a description of the body as a place of becoming, as a random connectivity of thin stainless steel bars. The exhibition, using three floors of BALTIC as well as the entrance, mediates between different levels of containment and extension, between the hidden and the visible, the physical and the ethereal, that which can be seen and that which can be sensed, engaging the viewer s body in a number of different ways, from the experience of gravity in Fruit and Body, to the negotiation of a form of labyrinth in Allotment. Domain Field confronts us with a kind of miasma, a forest of steel pins forming a mist in which we might lose or find ourselves. By alluding to different biological, architectural and micro-physical structures, the exhibition asks how are we defined as individuals? Through social or inherited structures, or through the celebration of our own lives? As in all Gormley s work the answers to these questions are not resolvable by thought.

The viewer is invited to make a space exploration through the agency of his or her own body, through the spaces that are articulated through different forms which in the artist s words are instruments to make us feel more alive. Visitors to BALTIC can continue to follow the creation and installation of the making of Domain Field from Level 5. The creation of the piece began on 10 February 2003. ends Notes to Editors: BALTIC, the major international centre for contemporary art, opened on 13 July 2002. The landmark building is situated on the south bank of the River Tyne, Gateshead, in the North of England. A 46m project has transformed the former Baltic Flour Mills, a disused 1950s grain warehouse, into a leading international contemporary arts venue - one of the biggest temporary art spaces in Europe.

Spring season at BALTIC supported by BALTIC The Centre for Contemporary Art South Shore Road Gateshead NE8 3BA telephone: 0191 478 1810; fax: 0191 478 1922

Gallery opening hours: Monday Wednesday, Friday & Saturday 10.00 19.00; Thursday 10.00 22.00; Sunday 10.00 17.00. Last entry is half an hour before closing. Admission to BALTIC is free

For further information or images contact Nina Byrne at BALTIC on +44(0) 191 440 4915

BALTIC The Centre for Contemporary Art
South Shore Road
Gateshead NE8 3BA
England
Tel: +44 (0)191 478 1810
Fax: +44 (0)191 478 1922
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