Antony Gormley

White Cube, London
Private Collection, New York

This work is in excellent and sound condition overall. The cast iron has oxidized, which is inherent to the medium. There is a pinpoint abrasion to the patina at the top right corner of the figure’s head, which is only visible under close inspection.
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"Working at different scales allows openness and play; you could be an ant, a mouse or an elephant and at each scale what is apprehended changes. For me, sculpture is increasingly about seeing how things might cohere, putting one thing against, on top of, to the side of or below another, tentatively drawing places and spaces that become frames and objects. It's not particularly goal-oriented; rather, it has to do with allowing bodies to become places. There is no end to the possibilities. The gaps created between things when they fall or the way one form overtakes another when they expand excites and intrigues me. It is as much about how form eats space or space eats mass as it is about form itself. How does feeling become involved with form? What calls to us or what blocks us? What allows a thing - a space, a place, a structure - to summon our feeling? These are things and ideas. They are physical thinking manifested as line, as plane, as mass, as dark, as light, as iron, as wood, as stone, as plastic. Sometimes the material is just a carrier, sometimes it is the thing." Antony Gormley, 2012