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8/1/2002

Antony Gormley

Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea CGAC, Santiago de Compostela

Curator: Michael Tarantino

If you are not prepared to expose yourself, you will have nothing to communicate. I don’t want the work to be rhetorical or dominating. I want it to be direct. The body is a receiver, an acceptor of conditions. It can also transmit a sense of internal condition.
(Antony Gormley, Interview with Udo Kittelmann for the catalogue Total Strangers, published by the Kolnischer Kunstverein, 1997)

CGAC is delighted to present the first survey in Spain of the work of Turner prize winning British artist Antony Gormley. One of a small number of sculptors who have radically re-visioned the place of the body in contemporary art, Gormley has inserted the body into the expanded field of post-modern practice in works such as Another Place, Allotment and Field. He has shown his work internationally for two decades in group shows such as the Venice Biennale and Documenta 8, and in solo exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery, the Serpentine Gallery, Tate St. Ives and White Cube.

This show, curated by Michael Tarantino, will be a survey of his work from 1978 to the present, charting his exploration of his own body as a starting point from which to explore the relationships between bodies and the contexts which they inhabit. Gormley’s sculptures are above all, "direct", and it is this directness which forms the basis of their relationship with the viewer as he/she seeks to situate these forms, to use his or her own body as a "receiver."

In a sense, Gormley’s work can be divided into those works which denote the human figure, such as Critical Mass, his 1999 installation at the Royal Academy in London, and those which connote the figure, such as Room (1980) and Cord (1991). In these connotative works, it is the trace of the human presence that dominates. These works will be included in the exhibition at CGAC, together with pieces from all the major series such as the Insiders, Quantum Cloud and Allotment. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue featuring an essay by Professor Lisa Jardine, a text by the curator of the show Michael Tarantino and an interview by Enrique Juncosa as well as an artist’s book with texts and drawings by Antony Gormley.

CGAC
CENTRO GALEGO DE ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEA
Hall, Ground Floor, Double Space
Rúa Ramón del Valle Inclán s/n
15704 Santiago de Compostela
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