Antony Gormley
dal 28/11/2007 al 20/12/2007
Segnalato da
28/11/2007
Antony Gormley
Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
Ataxia. On show seven new sculptures from the Block Works Series. These works model the body through four sizes of cast steel blocks that use the rules of architecture, its absolute geometries and an improvised construction to evoke an internal state and the body beneath the skin.
Exhibition by renowned British sculptor Antony Gormley at Anna Schwartz Gallery
Anna Schwartz Gallery presents Ataxia, seven new sculptures from the Block Works
Series by Antony Gormley, perhaps the most important living sculptor.
Over the last 25 years Gormley has revitalised the human image in sculpture, having
taken a conceptual approach to figurative sculpture through a radical investigation
of the body as a place of memory and transformation, using his own body as subject,
tool and material. Since 1990 he has expanded his concern with the human condition
to explore the collective body and the relationship between self and other in
large-scale installations across the world.
These works model the body through four sizes of cast steel blocks that use the
rules of architecture, its absolute geometries and an improvised construction to
evoke an internal state and the body beneath the skin.
Gormley aims to liberate each of these blocks into a space of its own, creating
dynamic figures composed of masses and voids. The works of Ataxia do not relate to
their architectural context; it is the internal relationship of the blocks that
creates the tension in the works. Some assume precarious stances where the sharp
material clarity of the steel blocks is countered by a sense of vulnerability and
exposure.
Antony Gormley was born in London in 1950. His work has been exhibited extensively,
with solo shows including the Whitechapel, Tate, the British Museum, White Cube, the
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Sean Kelly Gallery and the Irish Museum of Modern Art. His
acclaimed recent exhibition Blind Light at the Hayward Gallery comprised major
installations produced for the galleries and Event Horizon, a series of figures cast
from his own body installed on rooftops across London.
He has participated in the Venice Biennale and Kassel Documenta 8. His Field has
toured America, Europe and Asia. Angel of the North and, most recently, Quantum
Cloud on the Thames in Greenwich are amongst the most celebrated examples of
contemporary British sculpture.
Gormley has an established relationship with Australia, having created the major
works Inside Australia at Lake Ballard (WA) in 2002/2003, Asian Field for the
Biennale of Sydney in 2006 and previously exhibiting at Anna Schwartz Gallery in
2005.
He was awarded the Turner Prize in 1994 and was made an Order of the British Empire
(OBE) in 1997.
Opening (by invitation only): November 29, 6-8pm
The artist will be in attendance for the exhibition opening
Anna Schwartz Gallery
185 Flinders Lane - Melbourne
Tuesday - Friday 12-6pm
Saturday 1-5pm
Free admission