Antony Gormley

donated by the artist

Some recent solo exhibitions
'Event Horizon', Mad. Sq. Park, New York 2010
Sean Kelly Gallery, New York 2010, 'Breathing Room II'
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels 2009, 'Aperture'
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg 2009, 'Ataxia II'
Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2009, 'Antony Gormley'
Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow 2009, 'Domain Field'
Forth Plinth Commission, Trafalgar Square, London 2009, 'One & Other'
Galleria Continua, Beijing 2009, 'Another Singularity'
Kunsthal Rotterdam, 2008, 'Between You and Me'

Some recent group exhibitions
Jesus College, Cambridge 2009, 'Sculpture in the Close 2009: Caro, Gormley, Kiefer'
Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern 2008
Tate Britain, London 2007, 'The Turner Prize: A Retrospective'
Sotheby's at Chatsworth, Derbyshire 2006
Fundament Foundation, AaBe Fabrieken, Tilburg 2005, 'Space: now and then, art and architecture'

Selected publications
Antony Gormley, Göttingen: Steidl 2008
Burning ice: art & climate change, London: Cape Farewell 2006
Art now: interviews with modern artists, London; New York: Continuum 2002

Selected public and corporate collections
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, CA • Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, FI • Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, IR • Tate Britain, London, UK • Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE

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Over the last 25 years Antony Gormley has revitalized the human image in sculpture through a radical investigation of the body as a place of memory and transformation, using his own body as subject, tool and material. Since 1990 he has expanded his concern with the human condition to explore the collective body and the relationship between self and other large-scale installations like Another Place, Domain Field, and Inside Australia. His recent work increasingly engages with energy systems, fields and vectors, rather than mass and defined volume, evident in works like Clearing, Blind Light, Firmament and Another Singularity.
According to the artist: 'There was a lot of experimentation, but the "Domains" really got going when I realized I could describe the space of the body as a matrix formed from eight lengths of stainless steel in a reversal of the Greek pointing system, with rods resting on the internal surface of the body. They are put together with a loose set of rules: one end of each T-connection should always be touching the skin or boundary of the human body.'

Antony Gormley was a member of the 2003 jury Prix de Rome (NL).

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