May 01, 2013

ANTONY GORMLEY AT MIDDELHEIM MUSEUM




ANTONY GORMLEY AT MIDDELHEIM MUSEUM
February 21, 2013 – May 5, 2013


MIDDELHEIM MUSEUM UNVEILS A NEW ADDITION TO ITS PERMANENT COLLECTION BY ANTONY GORMLEY AND OPENS RELATED EXHIBITION AND COLLECTION PRESENTATION
February 21, 2013 - May 5, 2013
British artist Antony Gormley is the second guest artist to come and display his work in the renovated Middelheim Museum. The Firmament and Other Forms exhibition, a series of sculptures that have never been shown together to the public before, will be open from 24 February to 5 May in Het Huis (The House) at the Hortiflora. This exhibition was put together following the gift of the major work Firmament III by the artist’s gallery, Xavier Hufkens. Starting on 24 February, the collection presentation 1+1=33, with works by Vic Gentils and Rezsö Berczeller, will be presented and can be viewed in the Braempaviljoen (Braem Pavilion).
Antony Gormley (1950, United Kingdom) follows Thomas Schütte as guest exhibitor in the new semi-open exhibition pavilion Het Huis (The House), built by Robbrecht and Daem for the renovated Middelheim Museum. The open-air museum is now organising three exhibitions each year. The Braempaviljoen (Braem Pavilion) will feature two collection presentations each year.
Firmament III Antony Gormley’s pieces are on display in many prestigious galleries and museums around the world. Now the artist’s gallery, the Brussels-based Xavier Hufkens, has made possible an important donation: Firmament III.
The work is displayed at a unique location in the oldest section of the Middelheim Museum next to the main entrance. The work can now be seen on a permanent basis.
Firmament III (2009) is an irregular three dimensional net surrounding a human-shaped void approximately ten times life-size. At the open-air museum this work will pick up the light of the changing seasons and be a constant invitation to the visitor to consider his or her place in the order of things.
Exhibition Firmament and Other Forms in Het Huis To highlight this extraordinary acquisition, a series of Gormley’s ‘polyhedra’ sculptures – never before exhibited as a collection – will be on display in Het Huis (The House), the new exhibition pavilion designed by Robbrecht and Daem, from 24 February until 5 May 2013. In the words of the artist: ”This exhibition questions the human body’s attachment to architecture and investigates the place of the human body within the wider frame of things and worlds. All the works are based on the ‘bubble-matrix’; a random, but consistent geometry found in nature which also forms the structural syntax of Firmament III.” For almost forty years Antony Gormley has been exploring the relationship between the body and the space that surrounds it. Sometimes the interaction between the two is clear, as in Another Place or Inside Australia, in which figurative works are placed within a vast landscape. But sometimes the link is less obvious. Sculptures such as Clearing or Blind Light create a framework within which the viewer becomes the focus of attention.
Antony Gormley always uses his own body as a test site. This can be taken literally: he frequently casts his sculptures from his own body. What interests the artist is not only the aesthetic, but also the human aspect of the form: the person as an individual, as a member of the collective and as an object in relation to space and the natural world. Antony Gormley often engages in public art as well. A well-known example of such a participative work is One & Other, his interpretation of the Fourth Plinth art project in London’s Trafalgar Square.
Along with the opening of Firmament and Other Forms by Antony Gormley, the Middelheim Museum is launching a brand new collection of publications that will from now on be released on the occasion of temporary exhibitions in the open-air museum.
You may reach Antony Gormley’s interview with Pierre Tillet and exhibitions news  at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Paris, Zentrum Paul Klee, Gallery Andersson Stockholm, White Cube Hong Kong, and Xavier Hufkens Gallery to click below links.
Also you may watch a video to see Antony Gormley’ s working in his Studio and view from exhibition at Middelheim  Museum to click below cobra.be web page. Some photographs had taken from cobra.be’ s video that have writing on Antony Gormley’s explanation.
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/2014/04/antony-gormley-states-conditions-at.html
http://mymagicalattic.blogspot.com.tr/2014/09/antony-gormley-meet-at-gallery.html
RESORT II, 2012
Cast Iron
Dimensions: 37 x 197 x 49 cm
Installation view, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium, 2013
Photograph by Joris Casaer
© Antony Gormley
RESORT II, 2012




CUMULATE, 2011
Cast Iron 
Dimensions: 180 x 47 x 50 cm
Installation Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium, 2013
Photograph by Joris Casaer
© Antony Gormley




CUMULATE, 2011




CUMULATE, 2011
Cast Iron 
Dimensions: 180 x 47 x 50 cm
Installation Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium, 2013
Photograph by Joris Casaer
© Antony Gormley




CORNER II, 2012
Cast Iron
Dimensions: 73 x 55 x 66 cm
Installation view, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium, 2013
Photograph by Joris Casaer
© Antony Gormley




CORNER II, 2012




CUMULATE III, 2011
3 mm Square Section Stainless Steel Bar
Dimensions: 184 x 47 x 50 cm
Installation Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium, 2013
Photograph by Joris Casaer
© Antony Gormley




FUSE, 2011
Cast Iron
Dimensions: 23 x 205 x 58 cm
Installation Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium, 2013
Photograph by Pieter Boons
© Antony Gormley










VIEW FROM ANTONY GORMLEY'S STUDIO














VIEW FROM ANTONY GORMLEY'S STUDIO









FREEZE III, 2012
2 mm Square Section Stainless Steel Bar
Dimensions: 235 x 170 x 125 cm
Installation view, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium, 2013
Photograph by Joris Casaer
© Antony Gormley




LIMN III, 2012
Cast Iron
Dimensions: 168 x 57 x 48 cm
Installation view, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium, 2013
Photograph by Joris Casaer
© Antony Gormley




LIMN III, 2012


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RESORT II, 2012
Cast Iron
Dimensions: 37 x 197 x 49 cm
Installation view, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium, 2013
Photograph by Joris Casaer
© Antony Gormley




FIRMAMENT III - 2009




ABSTRACT, 2011
Cast Iron
Dimensions: 81 x 62 x 72 cm
Installation view, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium, 2013
Photograph by Joris Casaer
© Antony Gormley

















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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