September 21, 2014

ANTONY GORMLEY "MEET" AT GALLERY ANDERSSON STOCKHOLM




ANTONY GORMLEY "MEET" AT GALLERY ANDERSSON STOCKHOLM
August 21, 2014 - October 4, 2014




ANTONY GORMLEY "MEET" AT GALLERY ANDERSSON STOCKHOLM
August 21, 2014 - October 4, 2014
Galleri Andersson/Sandström Stockholm is proud to open our fall season 2014 with one of its most extensive exhibitions to date - a solo exhibition by one of today's most influential sculptors, the British artist Antony Gormley. Entitled MEET, the exhibition turns the gallery’s architecture into a psychic and physiological testing ground. Gormley will present twelve new, previously unseen works that all explore the relationship between the human body and the space surrounding it.
In a career spanning nearly 40 years, Antony Gormley (b. 1950) has developed the potential opened up by sculpture in the 1970s 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.
MEET is based on an architectural language where the cube functions as the basic element. Dispersed tactically throughout the gallery spaces as a series of alternating singular and paired interventions, the sculptures invite circumnavigation and are catalysts for a choreography of movement.
The most comprehensive work in the exhibition is MATRIX, a site-specific sculpture made from black 6mm steel bar on a 200mm grid re-enforcing bar. The scale is defined by the dimensions of the room. At its centre is a body-scaled void, 180 x 60 x 40 cm, created by the eleven interwoven volumes that colonise each other’s space. The work uses a cross-hatching technique, a graphic device used to deal with space, light and shade, which is now used structurally to capture space itself. This creates an optical effect where foreground and background are constantly shifting and confusing our sense of orientation and stability in the room.
In conjunction with the exhibition, Galleri Andersson/Sandström together with Antony Gormley's Studio, has produced a catalogue featuring a substantial text by Professor Maaretta Jaukkuri, former Chief Curator at Kiasma in Helsinki. The book launch will be held at the same time as the opening.
Images from the exhibition (Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger)
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 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/2013/12/british-artist-antony-gormley.html
http://mymagicalattic.blogspot.com.tr/2014/04/antony-gormley-states-conditions-at.html







WAKE - 2014
Dimension 71 x 79 x 204 cm, 4 mm
Corten steel




MATRIX - 2014
Dimension 360 x 395 x 355 cm, 5 mm
Mild Steel Reinforcing Mesh




HOVE - 2014
Dimension 50 x 198 x 44 cm,
Cast Iron




HEEL - 2014
Dimension 201 x 54 x 59 cm, 5 mm
 Square Section Stainless Steel Bar






DAZE - 2014
Dimension 208 x 32 x 43 cm,
Cast Iron






MEET - 2014
Dimension 192 x 56 x 50 cm, 3 mm
Square Section Stainless Steel Bar






CO-ORDINATE II - 2014
6 mm Square Section Mild Steel Bar.
One Horizontal and One Vertical Dissecting Line






CONSOLE II - 2014
Dimension 216 x 74 x 72 cm, 4 mm
Corten Steel












VIEW FROM ANTONY GORMLEY'S STUDIO


















VIEW FROM ANTONY GORMLEY'S STUDIO














INTROVERT - 2014
Dimension 191 x 42 x 33 cm, 4 mm
Corten steel
















SMALL FALL III - 2014
Dimension 100 x 24.5 x 24 cm,
Cast Iron






SMALL FORM III - 2013
Dimension 36 x 31 x 27.6 cm,
Cast Iron




SMALL TEST V - 2013
Dimension 47 x 30 x 24 cm,
Cast Iron






SMALL GAUGE IV - 2013
Dimension 110 x 24 x 14 cm,
Cast Iron




SMALL HEM V - 2013
Dimension 93.2 x 26.7 x 28.5 cm,
Cast Iron




























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.
http://www.antonygormley.com/biography