Antony Gormley

Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Brussels, Xavier Hufkens, Antony Gormley: You and Nothing, September – October 2006

Michael Mack, Ed., Antony Gormley, Göttingen 2007, p. 531, illustrated in colour

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In contrast to Gormley’s works that use mass to describe the space of the body, his Feeling Material series offers the viewer a sculptural language of movement; a dynamic phenomenological experience in which the field between objects is given as much attention as the human objects themselves. 

“Feeling Material XVIII is a three-dimensional drawing made around the space left by two bodies that face each other, creating a field of polarity which extends into the surrounding space. It is formed from an unending loop of 678 meters of 5mm square polished stainless steel that identifies a human space by using a form of trajectory mapping similar to those attempts to describe the various pathways of an electron around a nucleus. It becomes a line that spins a web around the body, orbiting close to the skin and then spiralling out into space, replacing the image of a palpable body with that of a field effect or an energy zone.” Antony Gormley

Inviting attention to the viewer’s own thoughts and feelings the work asks us to attend to that which we cannot see but know exists between ourselves and others.