ANTONY GORMLEY | Meniscus

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Corporate Collection, Cologne
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is slightly deeper in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Very close inspection reveals some light oxidation in places, as well as some small spots of burnishing and shallow and superficial scratches to some of the elements.
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A meniscus is a skin that carries tension: a barrier that registers the differential between two states of liquid matter. This sculpture attempts to map this liminal membrane as a nerve border, articulating inside and outside as transmissible and reconcilable through the automatic engagement of the body. The work plays with the mass of the work Feel (currently installed in the entrance of the Wellcome Collection in London), rendering it massless, transmuting it into a spatial drawing that constantly changes its density as we walk around it. The posture is of trance mixed with apprehension: here is a body as space, rendered in space, sensing space as a continuum. Antony Gormley