Antony Gormley

Sir Antony Mark David Gormley OBE ( born August 30, 1950 in London) is an English sculptor. His most famous sculpture is the large Angel of the North in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England.

Life

Gormley is the youngest of seven children of a German mother and an Irish father. He grew up in West Yorkshire Dewsbury Moor. He was a student at the Benedictine boarding school Ampleforth College, before studying from 1968 to 1971 at Trinity College, Cambridge. His subjects were archeology, ethnology and art history. Gormley spent the following three years in India and Sri Lanka, where he learned the technique of Vipassana meditation under the guidance of Satya Narayan Goenka. From 1974 to 1977 he completed in London from his art studies at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and at Goldsmiths, University of London. Then he finished yet in the years 1977-1979 a graduate course at the Slade School of Art, University College London.

In 1994 he was awarded the Turner Prize.

Gormley was until 2007 the Board of Trustees of the Baltic Centre of Contemporary Art in Gateshead and in 2007 the British Museum in London.

In October 2010, written Gormley and around 100 British artist an open letter to the conservative culture minister Jeremy Hunt of Great Britain as a protest against the budget cuts for the arts.

Gormley is married to the British painter Vicken Parsons, whom he had met at the Slade School of Art. In 2013 he was honored with the Praemium Imperiale.

Work (selection)

Since the 1990s he experimented with different materials, including steel. His works usually treat the human body as a subject. His own body was used in many cases as a template for life-size metal sculptures such as Being or Another Place.

Again and again He incorporates a work of entire social groups in the plant process and refers to Joseph Beuys ' concept of social sculpture.

Untiltled ( for Francis )

Sound II

Out of the Dark

Iron: Man

Havmannen

Another Place

Field

The project will be continued by Gormley since 1991 in different countries with different population groups, for example in 1993 with Field for the British Isles and in the same year at the Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal Canada and 2006 Asian Field, where 350 Chinese farmers from 100 tons clay within five days 180,000 figurines for Sidney Biennale formed.

Allotment II

Angel of the North, 1998

Quantum Cloud

Present Time

• 2001: The steel sculpture is zue period to the year 2018 one of the courtyards of Mansfield College, Oxford University.

Being

• 2002: Sculpture in the context of the sculpture project Kunstweg human traces in the Neander Valley. The cast-iron sculpture was placed in the bed of Düsseldorf.

Apart IX

• 2002: The crafted from metal blocks, crouching figure is in the possession of the Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California, United States.

Filter

• 2002: installation, which was acquired in 2009 by the Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, England.

Waste Man

• 2006: A human figure made of 30 tons of garbage on the beach at Margate in England, which was ultimately burned as a sign of the Burning Bush for the end of the film Exodus 32 minutes.

Time Horizon

• 2006: The installation is located in the Archaeological Park of Scolacium near Catanzaro in Calabria in Italy

Blind Light

• 2007: installations at the Hayward Gallery in the Southbank Centre in London.

One & Other

• 2009: invited Between July 6 and October 14, 2009 Gormley visitors to Trafalgar Square in London, this one to stay and represent each an hour on the fourth plinth of the place. 2400 " performer " took part.

Event Horizon

• 2007-2010: An installation of 31 life- size casts of the artist's body with four cast-iron and 27 fiberglass figures. The figures were mounted on tall buildings on the South Bank in London. A new arrangement was the installation in 2010 at sites around Madison Square in Manhattan, New York City and also in Borås in the Swedish Västra Götaland County.

Habitat

• 2008: installation on the grounds of the Anchorage Museum in Anchorage, Alaska.

Reflection II

• 2008: In the De Cordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, Massachusetts.

Sculpture for at Objective Experience of Architecture

• 2008: together with the architect David Chipperfield in Kivik Art Centre in Sweden.

Clearing V

• 2009: About 10 km aluminum tube, which is clamped to the wall in a room of wall and partially intertwined.

Voices from Oxford

• 2009: The figure stands on the Exeter College, Oxford, overlooking the main street of the university city, Broad Street.

Crouching Figure

• 2010: The Crouching Man is located on the North Sea beach in East Lothian in Scotland. The figure is 25.5 meters high and consists of a total of 60 tons of steel scaffolding.

Horizon Fields

• 2010 - April 2012: In the Bregenzerwald, Vorarlberg in Austria are 100 cast iron figures in the mountain each to exactly 2039 height over the Adriatic Sea.

Mothership with Standing Matter

• 2011: Jernbaneparken in Lillehammer, Norway. The 180cm high figure of steel consists of balls of various sizes and is surrounded by other balls that are scattered on the floor of a concrete box. The box is visible on two sides by glass panes through.

Mothership with Standing Matter

• 2011: In Jernbarneparken in Lillehammer made ​​up of different sized steel balls 180 cm high figure is surrounded by scattered on the floor further balls. The package is located in a concrete box of grants from two sides by glass panes insight.

Relational Aesthetics

• 2012 together with his wife Vicky Parsons. Mobile steel rods, polystyrene beads in different sizes, nylon and steel strings, glue and colors in the exhibition Sweethearts. Artist Couples, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London.

Horizon Field Hamburg

• April 27, 2012 - September 9, 2012, installation in the northern of the two Hamburg Deichtorhallen. In the empty hall, a steel construction with a total weight of 67 t 7.4 m in height was hung, the mass 4890 * 2490 * 206 cm. On the 12 mm thick base made ​​of birch plywood 168 Acoustic cells were mounted in wood and coated with black PU resin. The construction could by stairs, which were not connected with the construction, be barefoot to enter.

Vessel 2012

• April 28, 2012 - September 15, 2012, installation at the Galleria Continua in San Gimignano, Tuscany, Italy. Gormley created a fastened together, consisting of 39 steel boxes sculpture with the dimensions 370 × 2200 × 480 cm. The boxes are made ​​of Corten steel and were secured with M16 steel bolts together.

Sum 2012

• Installation at the Galleria Continua. Cast iron figure. Dimensions: 22 × 201 × 51 cm.

Blickachsen 9

• 2013: Blickachsen 9, Bad Homburg, Cast Iron Sculpture: Burst II, 350 × 250 × 81 cm.

Exhibitions

• Antony Gormley: Sculpture, 1985 Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main.
• Antony Gormley. July 12 to October 4, 2009 Kunsthaus Bregenz.
• Antony Gormley: Aperture, September-October 2009 Galerie Xavier Hufgens, Brussels.
• Still Being ( Corpos Presentes ), 2012-2013, at the Centro Cultural Banco Brasil in São Paulo and then in Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia. Part of this first exhibition of Gormley in Latin America were Amazonian Field, Critical Mass, Event Horizon and Breathing Room.
• Antony Gormley: Model, 2012-2013, White Cube, Bermondsey Street, London, England.