Since his first exhibition in 1981 at the whitechapel art gallery in london, he has exhibited extensively in britain and abroad. The main story line of the film helps convey the process and pressure of putting together a. The human body, his own in particular, has been his subject in. Gormley continually tries to identify the space of art as a place of becoming in which new behaviors, thoughts and.
For years, he has cast his own body, placing it on top of buildings, in trees. Antony gormley is widely acclaimed for his sculptures, installations and public artworks that investigate the relationship of the human body to space. Buy making space by gormley, antony, jennett, richard, leader, darian, renton, andrew. Another place sculptures antony gormley stock photos. Maidstone college of art in 1978, gormley suggested. Drawing space, phillips collection, washington, dc, usa. One series of prints, body and soul, features marks made by gormleys mouth, knees, spine, and even the tip of his penis.
Antony gormley drops 60tonne load for monumental sculpture exposure, built in the netherlands, took scottish pylonmakers and dutch engineers six. Gormley speaks about his psychological state during creation, his notion of an inner space. Nov 16, 2015 a series of guided tours, public lectures, seminars and handson workshops will be held relating to the topic of public art in the city including a talk by antony gormley on 16 november 2015 at the university of hong kong. The first work, from the series learning to see iii 1993, is a sculpture of embodied consciousness. Buy making space by gormley, antony, jennett, richard, leader, darian, renton, andrew, searle, adrian, king, isabel isbn. Making space hardcover april 1, 2004 by antony gormley author. In an exclusive extract from his new book, antony gormley, britains foremost sculptor, reveals the. Much of gormleys work creates space, where gormley can make a space and create a situation for the viewer.
Widely acclaimed for his sculptures, installations and public artworks that investigate the relationship of the human body to space, his work has developed the potential opened up by sculpture since the 1960s through a critical engagement with both his own body and those of others in a way that confronts fundamental questions. In an exclusive extract from his new book, antony gormley, britains foremost sculptor. At some point during your stay in india in the 1970s you were faced with a choice between the spiritual life and the artists life. Sitting at a table, sticking sticks together, making something that might be a tower or might become a loose chain of frames the forms evolve almost like a game. Sir antony gormley ra keynote lecture entitled making space. Antony gormley, the british sculptor who gave this thoughtprovoking talk at tedglobal 2012, takes a very different approach, creating works that explore the interior space we feel within our own bodies and the exterior space we feel knowing that we are just dots in space and time. What kind of space mentally, physically, imaginatively does it transmit to others. His works include the angel of the north, a public sculpture in gateshead in the north of england, commissioned in 1994 and erected in february 1998. Even casual fans will recognize event horizon, a collection of thirtyone lifesize casts of the artists body that have been installed atop buildings in places like londons south bank and new yorks madison square, and field, formed by tens of thousands of standing clay.
Sep 07, 2012 antony gormley, the british sculptor who gave this thoughtprovoking talk at tedglobal 2012, takes a very different approach, creating works that explore the interior space we feel within our own bodies and the exterior space we feel knowing that we are just dots in space and time. Bodies in space iv, 2001 forged ball bearings 206 x 86 x 72 cm photograph by stephen white, london. Click and collect from your local waterstones or get free uk delivery on orders over. Antony gormley decided to pursue art after studying anthropology and nearly becoming a buddhist monk while travelling in india. Oct 16, 2015 culture art features antony gormley on sculpture.
Its not just about making sculptures, but because it expresses human energy in space. An unusually interesting art documentary shore8 12 september 2007. Antony gormley a brief biography antony gormley was born in 1950 in london, where he continues to live and work. The talk was associated with an exhibition, space to draw, which opened on 17th january and runs until 10th february and includes both sculpture and drawings by antony gormley and. Antony gormley, in full antony mark david gormley, born august 30, 1950, london, england, british sculptor and draftsman best known for his work with human forms, which he created chiefly from casts of his own naked body. David peat in conversation with the sculptor antony gormley. Books by antony gormley author of antony gormley on. Feel your body in space and make a note of the differing reach of your limbs and their articulation. Bodies in space i, 2001 forged ball bearings 192 x 49 x 34 cm. Beeban kidrons making space is an unusually interesting art documentary.
Book launch related gallery baltic centre for contemporary art. Oct 16, 2015 one of the most exciting sculptors of our time, antony gormley is the creator of breathtaking public installations. Studying buddhism in sri lanka and india between 1971 and 1974 inspired his tactile connection to conceptual questions. Last night, tina mammoser and i were treated to a unique event antony gormley ra speaking in public for the very first time ever about his drawings at a gallery talk to a small audience at the jerwood space. Website of british sculptor antony gormley, creator of the angel of the north. The core of gormleys sculptural thinking the relationship between mass and space, carried through skin, grid and volume can be seen on the ground floor. Legendary sculptor antony gormley riffs on space and the human form. Making space an artist talk by antony gormley british council. In its persistent exploration of figuration and the body during periods of their near exclusion in sculpture, bruce naumans work offers an interesting parallel to gormleys.
See more ideas about gormley, antony gormley, antony. His works explore the interior space we feel within our own bodies and the exterior space we feel around us, knowing that we are just dots in space and time. Harry seymour sat down with him to discuss how the show came together. It not only manages to tell a story, but tells two interwoven stories, and does each with some pace and urgency.
The articulation prize final clare college, cambridge 10 march 2017 keynote lecture by sir antony gormley ra making space. With a new summer exhibition, the british sculptor antony gormley has repopulated the ancient ruins of the uninhabited greek island of delos with 29 of his bodyforms and become probably the first artist in almost two millennia to make a work of art for the site. Sir antony gormley ra keynote lecture entitled making. In his talk, gormley shares that he first began thinking about.
See available sculpture, prints and multiples, and works on paper for sale and learn about the artist. I am trying to destroy the fixed coordinates of a room and make a spacetime. Mit commissions antony gormley to create sitespecific work on campus. Reinventing the classics and bringing the body back to sculpture. Yet, the seemingly delicate and airy form is, in fact, fashioned from 1700 pounds of polished. The work proved controversial due to the naked statues but has increased tourism to the beach. Antony gormleys chord 2015 comprises thirtythree polyhedrons welded together and reaching vertically from the floor of building 2 to the skylight, four stories above. Bodies in space vi omar khan, 2003 forged ball bearings 177 x 76 x 43 cm photograph by stephen white, london.
Apr 30, 2012 this passion project that has spanned across almost 15 years on five separate occasions in different parts of the world displays an army of 200,000 clay figures that completely occupy the space they are exhibited in. Light passes through the open spaces of the sculpture, and also reflects off the slender rods and nodes that form each unit. In the royal academys ra recent survey of gormley, the public. Antony gormleys sculptures, installations and public artworks investigate the relationship of the human body to space. A series of guided tours, public lectures, seminars and handson workshops will be held relating to the topic of public art in the city including a talk by antony gormley on 16 november 2015 at the university of hong kong.
Making sculpture stems from a need to leave a trace of existence, but there is an even greater need to challenge existence itself with mute objects that look back at us and question our materiality with their own. The article covers some aspects in the art of antony gormley, a contemporary british sculptor. He was awarded the tate gallery turner prize in 1994. Website of british sculptor antony gormley, creator of the angel of the north, field for the british isles, and quantum cloud. Perhaps bestknown for his 200tonne angel of the north installation near gateshead, and his project involving 2,400 members of the public for trafalgar squares the fourth plinth, antony gormley is one of the uks most celebrated sculptors. A massive field of 200,000 clay figures my modern met.
Making space by antony gormley, richard jennett waterstones. It is difficult to know whether these things some very tentative, some more confident made themselves, or were made. At the centre of antony gormley s sculptural practice lies a concern with the subjective space of the human body and its relationship with the objective space of the collective environment that surrounds it. His work has developed the potential opened up by sculpture since the 1960s through a critical engagement with both his own body and those of others in a way that confronts fundamental questions.
Bodies in space v, 2001 forged ball bearings 200 x 106 x 70 cm. For three ways he used such casts to make lead figures in three simple poses. Apr 01, 2020 to try and make lockdown a little more bearable, artists antony gormley, grayson perry, gillian wearing, michael landy and others have come together to create a free, downloadable activity book. The main story line of the film helps convey the process and pressure of putting together a major gallery show with new, largescale works. In these artworks he examined aspects of the human presence in the world, often employing more than one figure placed within a landscape or cityscape. Buy making space by antony gormley, richard jennett from waterstones today. Resurgence article an interview with antony gormley. Gormley s work started to be critically acclaimed in the 1985. This talk was presented at an official ted conference, and was featured by our editors on the home page. The figures are modelled on the artists own naked body. The exhibition is curated by martin caigersmith, with sarah lea, curator at the royal academy of arts.
This is why, in the process of castmaking, the artist is 2 less interested in the inner. With this raw material gormley created such work as another place and inside australia, where the work becomes a frame through which the viewer becomes the viewed antony gormley, 2012. This model room shares something fluid between mass and space, drawing and object. At a certain point in the late 1990s, i started thinking about the relationship of mass and space as dynamic, taking handforged balls and making constellations that convey something about entropy and aggregation in.
Another place is a piece of modern sculpture by sir antony gormley located at crosby beach in merseyside, england. Body, fruit, earth 17 may 25 august 2003, antony gormley. Antony gormley a resource for the visual arts classroom. Apr 01, 2004 buy making space by gormley, antony, jennett, richard, leader, darian, renton, andrew, searle, adrian, king, isabel isbn. Sculpture in britain 19771986, mead gallery, university of warwick. Antony gormley, royal academy of arts, 21 september3. See more ideas about antony gormley, antony gormley sculptures and art. Gormleys intention here is to create a threedimensional drawing in space. Traditional greek sculptors took a hunk of marble and, by chipping away at it, crafted the human form. Antony gormley is a british artist known for his exploration of the human bodys relationship to space. Making space an artist talk by antony gormley british. To make his first characteristic lead bodycase sculptures, his own body first had to be. Sir antony mark david gormley, obe born 30 august 1950, is a british sculptor.
His work has developed through a critical engagement with both his own body. Books by antony gormley author of antony gormley on sculpture. Antony gormleys stated aim in his artistic practice is to return sculpture to a kind of collective activity that humans have always found necessary. Im treating my life as a test site for the common human condition, gormley says.
Jan 27, 2014 antony gormley s sculptures, installations and public artworks investigate the relationship of the human body to space. Mould, hole and passage, antony gormley, 19812 you are aware that there is a transition, that something that is happening within you is gradually registering externally. In his 20072010 piece event horizon, he placed several dozen lifesize casts of his own body on urban rooftops, where they looked out over streets and squares. It consists of 100 cast iron figures facing towards the sea. Gormley says of this project, i wanted to work with people and to make a work about our collective future and our responsibility. As an artist whose work is so much about the body, it seems natural that antony gormley should be interested in dance. Gormley works with the native people of the installations exhibiting space to mold the 125 tons of clay. Antony gormleys work places human forms into eyeopening new contexts, asking us to reconsider our own place in the world. British sculptor antony gormley in conversation with jan van boeckel about his work and inspiration. It not only manages to tell a story, but tells two interwoven. British sculptor antony gormley is wellknown for his lifesize sculptures that creatively mimic the human body, but the figurative clay mounds from his series titled field, though not as accurate in depicting mankinds form, holds deeper value for the artist.
It is an early attempt to try to make this memory of a real body connect, not to the white. Oct 15, 2015 antony gormley will speak about his use and investigation of the language of architecture in his work, a lexicon that he has consistently revisited in order to explore the space and place of mind. Antony gormley will speak about his use and investigation of the language of architecture in his work, a lexicon that he has consistently revisited in order to explore the space and place of mind. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. This is how antony gormley described his experience of making plaster casts of his own body. So this first inspiration blog, i will be talking about is antony gormley is known for his works on sculptures all over the world, one of his famous ones is the angel of the north.
He often casts his own body as the starting point for his sculptural works, which go on to include cast iron, wire, shellac. Antony gormley, turner prizewinning british sculptor and draftsman best known for his work with human forms, which he created chiefly from casts of his own naked body. Pdf antony gormleys sculptures do not depict bodies in narrative positions and rhetorical gestures. Grayson perry, antony gormley and gillian wearing create at. Apr 01, 2004 making space hardcover april 1, 2004 by antony gormley author. The making of this object was an expression of connection, identification with the continuation of life, its interconnectivity both in sex and in death and, by inference, the human position within. Find an indepth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. One of the most exciting sculptors of our time, antony gormley is the creator of breathtaking public installations.
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