MY MAGICAL ATTIC: ANTONY GORMLEY AT XAVIER HUFKENS GALLERY

April 30, 2013

ANTONY GORMLEY AT XAVIER HUFKENS GALLERY

According to a Given Mean

March 28, 2013 - May 4, 2013

ANTONY GORMLEY AT XAVIER HUFKENS GALLERY

According to a Given Mean

March 28, 2013 - May 4, 2013

Xavier Hufkens is pleased to present an exhibition of recent sculptures by Antony Gormley. Taking a variety of geometries as a starting point for an investigation of space, place and reflexive architecture, the works in according to a given mean explore the ways in which mathematical principles of spatial organisation — ultimately foreign to the body — are able to evoke states of being or mind and provoke emotional responses through purely objective means.

A number of works in the exhibition have evolved from the language of the polyhedra series that was first exhibited at Xavier Hufkens in 2009 (examples of which can currently be seen in the exhibition at Middelheim Museum, Antwerp). One example is Sum (2012), in the upstairs gallery: a floor-bound, dispersed, crystalline landscape that encloses a body caught in a moment of aggregation or entropy. These sculptures use masses and space-frames generated by the Weaire-Phelan ‘bubble matrix’ to identify human forms in space. Gormley has since further experimented with crystal aggregation, explaining: ‘I encountered a vast variety of geometries, ranging from the pyramidal forms of sodium crystals to the more jagged formation of copper sulphate. Intrigued by the ways in which iron pyrite forms natural aggregates, I began to experiment and to use cuboids to form body masses.’

according to a given mean explores two further avenues. One series of sculptures is made up of randomly distributed, chain-like groupings of orthogonal space-frames that are based on the proportions of the body. The frames are interwoven, dispersed or suspended. In Frame (2013), a six-times life-size body-form that falls diagonally across the gallery’s main space, the volumes intersect and react to the specific dimensions of the gallery whilst simultaneously lending their architectural surroundings a figural association. The work is intended to act as a catalyst: by walking in, through and around it, the viewer’s awareness of his/her own body is intensified.

A second series translates the volumes of the body into strict cubic frames or solids. There are two modes: standing forms comprising unstable towers of orthogonal cubes that seem to be at the point of collapse, and bodies at rest which have lost their orthogonal qualities and are transformed into abstract matrices. According to the artist: ‘The shift into these jumbled abstractions was inspired, in part, by iron pyrite crystal agglomerations. For instance, Resort III (2013), which is placed in the entrance to the gallery, uses the language of mineral precipitation to investigate the dependency of humans upon their habitat, whilst blocks are incorporated into the feet of the standing works to exaggerate their precariousness. This also references Brancusi’s interest in turning the object’s isolation from the floor into the structure of the object itself.’

Finally, Pump (2013), the first in a new series of works, takes full advantage of the gallery’s height. This extended body-case, with its head pinned to the floor under the pressure of its vertical, thermometer-like body, tests the relationship of consciousness to incarnation.

Xavier Hufkens Gallery photographs had taken by Allard Bovenberg.

You may visit another exhibition news of Antony Gormley at Middelheim Museum and another news about his general exhibitions and projects to see click below links.

http://www.xavierhufkens.com/exhibition/2013-03-antony-gormley?utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer:%2Bkunstart%2Bon%2Btwitter&buffer_share=5394b

You may reach Antony Gormley’s interview with Pierre Tillet and past exhibitions news at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Zentrum Paul Klee, Gallery Andersson Stockholm, White Cube Gallery Hong Kong, Xavier Hufkens Gallery and Middelheim Museum to click below links.

http://mymagicalattic.blogspot.com.tr/2013/12/british-artist-antony-gormley.html

http://mymagicalattic.blogspot.com.tr/2015/03/antony-gormley-second-body-at-galerie.html

http://mymagicalattic.blogspot.com.tr/2014/11/antony-gormley-expansion-field-at.html

http://mymagicalattic.blogspot.com.tr/2014/09/antony-gormley-meet-at-gallery.html

http://mymagicalattic.blogspot.com.tr/2014/04/antony-gormley-states-conditions-at.html

http://mymagicalattic.blogspot.com/2013/05/antony-gormley-at-middelheim-museum.html

FRAME, 2013
Installation View
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium, 2013
Photograph Allard Bovenberg

CLUSTER, 2013
Installation View
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium, 2013
Photograph Allard Bovenberg

CLUSTER II AND A GIVEN MEAN I, 2013
Installation View
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium, 2013
Photograph Allard Bovenberg

LOT II, 2012
Installation View
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium, 2013
Photograph Allard Bovenberg

CLASP VII, 2013
Installation View
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium, 2013
Photograph Allard Bovenberg

MEAN III AND CLASP VII, 2013
Installation View
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium, 2013
Photograph Allard Bovenberg

MEAN III, 2013
Installation View
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium, 2013
Photograph Allard Bovenberg

VIEW FROM ANTONY GORMLEY'S STUDIO

LIE, 2013
Installation View
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium, 2013
Photograph Allard Bovenberg

FALL, 2013
Installation View
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium, 2013
Photograph Allard Bovenberg

INSTALLATION VIEW
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium, 2013
Photograph Allard Bovenberg

COTCH X, 2013
Installation View
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium, 2013
Photograph Allard Bovenberg

MEAN, 2013
Installation View
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium, 2013
Photograph Allard Bovenberg

RESORT III, 2013
Installation View
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium, 2013
Photograph Allard Bovenberg

PUMP, 2013
Installation View
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
Photograph Allard Bovenberg

FALL, II
Installation View
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium, 2013
Photograph Allard Bovenberg

COTCH XI, 2013
Installation View
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium, 2013
Photograph Allard Bovenberg

SUM, 2012
Installation View
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium, 2013
Photograph Allard Bovenberg

ANTONY GORMLEY

Antony Gormley is 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 of where human being stands in relation to nature and the cosmos. Gormley continually tries to identify the space of art as a place of becoming in which new behaviours, thoughts and feelings can arise. Gormley's work has been widely exhibited throughout the UK and internationally with exhibitions at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo, Rio di Janeiro and Brasilia (2012); Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (2012); The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg (2011); Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2010); Hayward Gallery, London (2007); Malmö Konsthall, Sweden (1993) and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark (1989). He has also participated in major group shows such as the Venice Biennale (1982 and 1986) and Documenta 8, Kassel, Germany (1987). Permanent public works include the Angel of the North (Gateshead, England), Another Place (Crosby Beach, England), Inside Australia (Lake Ballard, Western Australia) and Exposure (Lelystad, The

Netherlands). Gormley was awarded the Turner Prize in 1994, the South Bank Prize for Visual Art in 1999 and the Bernhard Heiliger Award for Sculpture in 2007. In 1997 he was made an Officer of the British Empire (OBE). He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, an Honorary Doctor of the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity and Jesus Colleges, Cambridge. Gormley has been a Royal Academician since 2003 and a British Museum Trustee since 2007. Antony Gormley was born in London in 1950.

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