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.
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.
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
