Antony Gormley Exhibition

Famous for covering London with spooky figures cast from his own body, you can now see a brand new Antony Gormley exhibition on show at White Cube Mason's Yard until the 12th April. Once again using his well known figures for inspiration, two different sculptural installations are on show, both using the form of the body to express their respective meanings.

The first half of the Antony Gormley exhibition, Firmament is constructed from 1770 steel rods and 1019 steel balls to create the enormous figure of a body. Looking like a massive computer generated design of the human form, the structure is pressed agains the walls of the gallery as if attempting to push them away.

Testing your sense of perception to the limit, the lines created by the form shift as you move around it, creating a constant sense of fluidity and movement that is not actually present in the sculpture. Making much of this disquieting sense of shape shifting, the installation gives you a chance to feel how objects move in and out of different perspectives, giving an insight into the movements in time and space.

Lost Horizon takes its inspiration from the Event Horizon exhibtion that saw the London skyline covered with Antony Gormley figures during summer 2007. This second part of the current Antony Gormley exhibition has the casts of his body strewed around the gallery space, on the floor, walls and ceilings as an internalized version of the previous installation. Placed in this haphazard way around the room, the 32 figures are crowded in on one another, making the gallery feel claustraphobic and unsettling.

This is another great show from the man who is fast becoming one of the country's most favoured of public artists, with the Event Horizon exhibition in London last summer and his installation of several figures on a beach in Crosby, and of course the most famous of all, the Angel of the North in Gateshead.

On show at White Cube Mason's Yard, the current Antony Gormley exhibition is free to enter. The gallery is open from 10am to 6pm, Tuesday to Saturday.

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