Antony Gormley Exhibition
When
04 June 2010 -
10 July 2010
10am - 6pm Tues-Sat
Where
White Cube
Cost
Free
Age Restrictions
n/a
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 10th July 2010. Once again using his well known figures for inspiration, a major installation and a series of sculpturs are on show, both using Gormley's renowned simplified forms of the body to express their respective meanings.
Antony Gormley exhibition
Entitled Test Sites, the Antony Gormley exhibition takes over both floors of the White Cube Masons Yard gallery. Consisting of a series of cast iron blockwork sculptures and the large site specific installation, Breathing Room III, the artworks invite you to consider the implications of how time affects objects and how objects affect us, in a chain reaction of artistic exploration.
Breathing Room III
Breathing Room III is created by 15 interconnecting photo-luminescent space frames, which represents the total volume of the actual space within the White Cube gallery. Testing your senses of perception to the limit, the intense bursts of light and dark created by the form of the installation shift as you move into and 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.
Human form
Renowned for the Event Horizon exhibtion that saw the London skyline covered with Antony Gormley figures during summer 2007 and his Fourth Plinth sculpture where different people stood on the column for entire summer in 2009, this second part of the Antony Gormley exhibition focuses on the body once more. Strewn around the ground floor gallery space are a series of block work sculptures that reflect the human form, and continue to investigate the body and its relationship to the built wood artworks. Using stacking, propping and cantilever to erect the sculptures, there is an underlying tension created by the forms that echo the urban bound human condition, making the gallery feel claustraphobic and unsettling.
Public art
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, his installation of several figures on a beach in Crosby, One and Other on the Fourth Plinth, and of course the most famous of all, the Angel of the North in Gateshead.
The current Antony Gormley exhibition, Test Sites, takes place from 10am to 6pm, Tuesday to Saturday, from Friday 4th June - Saturday 10th July 2010 at White Cube Mason's Yard. Entrance is free.
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