Antony Gormley is a British artist born in 1950 best known for his figurative sculptures from

which Angel of the North is probably the most famous.

He observes the place of human in society exploration of space. Reinvention of figurative art

When he was 19 he went on a trip to India on which he saw station crowded with people lying on
the floor, shell like abstract sculptures this experience led him to his first sculptures.
Bed 1981 unseeable space that the body occupies he ate out his silhouette out of bread
Liverpool bodies in sea working with the environment
Reactions of used materials to the weather
Chord attachement, community, MIT
Anthropology, budhist philosophy, universe, science, physics
198Os
Fields Turner prize working with different communities, made by the people, Atavistic
(inherited from ancestors) collective engagement,

Radical work Invited people to be part of a plinth for one hour. Democratization liberation
Privileged space
3D computer scans
Connection with architecture cellular, boxes,
Relationship between body and built environment
Passage – human form tunell, invitation to walk trough o the light
Sleeping field – urban landscape city like environment, which is actually sleeping people

Ted talk
Gormley says that rather than dealing with object, meta or body he deals with space (within us
and around us)

Blind Light (2007) is an installation illuminated room filled with mist

One of his big influence was Beyus
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ANOTHER PLACE, 1997

Another place is a sculptural group consisting of 100 cast figures made from iron. Altogether
there are 17 types of casts of artist’s body. They all might seem the same, but there are small
differences in posture (sometimes they are more relaxed and others more tense) and the extent of
chest (in which are lungs inflated more or less). For the first time, the sculptures were installed in
2005 on Crosby Beach, which is around 11 km far from Liverpool. They found their home in
Sefton
The piece was nicknamed “The Iron Men” by locals. Sometimes the communities dress these
sculptures for fun or for celebration of culture.

EVENT HORIZON 30 human sculptures on the rooftop nearby Waterloo Bridge central London

On Gormleys installations, or rather environments, he creates spaces or sometimes even

architecture where he tries to bring up our <limitless,> consciousness

Cave 2019, inspired by artists visit to an actual prehistoric cave, looks like a pile of cuboids
filling up whole space of one of the museums exhibitions rooms. But in fact, this seemingly
disorganised sculpture is actually once again human body. The hollow shell like form gives the
visitor two options. You could either enter the dark interior weakly illuminated by a few stripes
of light coming from outside or if you didn’t feel like it you could use the small space to walk
along the sculpture squeezed between the Cave and the rooms walls. is illuminated only by little
light coming through the outside. Its made out of 27 tons of steel.
London’s Royal Academy exhibition his then new works were mostly made out of steel which
was 98 percent recycled. Caring about carbon footprint

precultural experience, Even though the whole space is fabricated by a manmade material,
Blind Light (2007) is architecture within architecture. commissioned for exhibition in London’s
Hayward Gallery. This piece is a room made out of glass filled with thick artificial mist and
illuminated with bright white light. After visitor entered the room and immersed to the undefined
space, the conditions disabled their visual senses. Once they found themselves in the vapor they
couldn’t see their stretched arms in front of them, part of their bodies disappeared. At some point
people got to the glass walls which defined room. From the outside view the bodies of visitors
became visible.
The Blind Light shows ambivalence of seeing: visitors interacting with the environment don’t
see each other they barely see their own limbs. And then there are the spectators of the
environment from the outside.
Then there is the factor of social interaction
While wandering around with their arms stretched visitors would accidently touch some
shoulders or even faces of a stranger.
Disorienting

Later works geometric abstractions prints woodblocks aquatints body prints etchings not
representatios bud metaphors (crude oil, petroleum, jelly, linseed oil,