Antony Gormley
dal 5/3/2008 al 11/4/2008
Segnalato da
5/3/2008
Antony Gormley
White Cube Mason's Yard, London
The artist has created two substantial sculptural installations that test and respond to the architectural limits of the gallery spaces. In the lower-ground gallery, Gormley installs a single "expanded field" constructed from 1770 steel elements and 1019 steel balls, welded together to create a non-regular, polygonal structure whose form dissolves and resolves throughout the gallery.
White Cube Mason's Yard is pleased to present a new exhibition by Antony Gormley. Following on from the success of his recent exhibition at The Hayward Gallery, London in 2007, Gormley has created two substantial sculptural installations that test and respond to the architectural limits of the gallery spaces at White Cube Mason's Yard.
In the lower-ground gallery, Gormley will install a single 'expanded field' constructed from 1770 steel elements and 1019 steel balls, welded together to create a non-regular, polygonal structure whose form dissolves and resolves throughout the gallery. Pressed against the edges of the gallery space, the installation, entitled 'Firmament', brings to mind an assembled matrix of volumes that map a celestial constellation while also implying the form of a 'body that is lost within it. With its graphic outline, 'Firmament' looms over the viewer, and at times feels claustrophobic, while at others it comes across as a landscape-like drawing in space.
Gormley's work has always been about our sense of perception, testing what it feels like to experience our physical presence in certain conditions of time and space. In this installation, the viewer is asked to readjust, continually, their relationship to the field as they navigate through it. The work was developed with Tristan Simmonds of the Advanced Geometry Unit at Arup, and it builds upon the collaboration that began with 'Space Station', which was shown at The Hayward Gallery.
On the ground-floor gallery, Gormley will activate the space with 32 solid-iron body forms that chronicle six moments of physical endurance. The works will be placed throughout the space on floors, walls and ceiling. 'Lost Horizon' is an internalised form of 'Event Horizon', his celebrated installation over the rooftops of central London, but here the installation forms a concentrated, haptic field that acts directly on the body of the viewer. Like 'Critical Mass', which Gormley has reconfigured and assembled in many different architectural environments, 'Lost Horizon' is a temporary infection of a given site, with the potential to activate other spaces in the future.
Antony Gormley was born in 1950 in London, England, where he lives and works. He has participated in major group exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale (1982 and 1986), Documenta VIII, Kassel, Germany (1987) and the Sydney Biennale (2006). Solo exhibitions include The Hayward, London (2007), ICA, Singapore (2005), Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon (2004), Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England (2003), and the National History Museum, Beijing, China (2003). He was awarded the Turner Prize in 1994.
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Image: Antony Gormley, Firmament, 2008
30 x 30mm sq mild steel tube, Dimensions variable
© the artist, Courtesy Jay Jopling/ White Cube (London)
Preview Wednesday 5 March, 6-8pm
White Cube Mason's Yard
25-26 Mason's Yard, London
free admission