Walk of life: Gormley unveils 100 tons body sculpture one can walk through (PHOTOS)Get short URLLink copied to clipboardemail story to a friendprint versionPublished: 28 November, 2012, 18:52
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(Image from http://whitecube.com)British sculptor Anthony Gormley has been studying the human body all his creative life. He’s put iron men on hillsides and on tops of skyscrapers. Now the artist has unveiled what he calls the culmination of his more than 30 year career. The only caution inside is to mind your head, as in some parts of the sculpture one needs to bend and even crawl through. The good news is that once you are inside, you can do whatever you like – no limitations. “I don’t want to put any parameters on how people choose to relate to this object, either inside or out. My son went in and he was all over it; he used it as a parkour course,” Gormley says. “We are in a time when the sort of things people will do in art galleries is changing all the time. We’re not surprised to have people running; jumping, dancing and I think this is right. Galleries and museums are … places where human nature and human behavior has to be tested, extended, challenged.”The White Cube Bermondsey gallery was chosen deliberately, as it is one of the largest commercial exhibition venues in Europe, spacious enough to house Gormley’s epic work. The display will be on until mid February.Inside the sculpture building ‘Model’ at a White Cube gallery in London. (Image from http://whitecube.com)British artist Antony Gormley poses for a photograph on his sculpture ‘Model’ at a White Cube gallery in London November 27, 2012. (Reuters / Stefan Wermuth)”);
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London’s White Cube gallery in Bermondsey has opened a new Anthony Gormley exhibition. The new massive sculpture weighs 100 tons, is made up of 24 interconnected steel blocks and can accommodate up to 1000 people inside it according to the artist, The Guardian reports.The structure looks like a complex asymmetrical building and is a representation of the human body that invites people inside. To explore the Model project one enters the “body” through the arms or the legs and journey through the labyrinth inside. “This is the first time, in a long and winding road that has taken 30-odd years to travel, that I’ve made a body that you can actually go in. I think it’s a breakthrough,” The Guardian quotes Gormley as saying. British artist Antony Gormley poses for a photograph inside his sculpture building ‘Model’ at a White Cube gallery in London November 27, 2012. (Reuters / Stefan Wermuth)The only caution inside is to mind your head, as in some parts of the sculpture one needs to bend and even crawl through. The good news is that once you are inside, you can do whatever you like – no limitations. “I don’t want
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to put any parameters on how people choose to relate to this object, either inside or out. My son went in and he was all over it; he used it as a parkour course,” Gormley says. “We are in a time when the sort of things people will do in art galleries is changing all the time. We’re not surprised to have people running; jumping, dancing and I think this is right. Galleries and museums are … places where human nature and human behavior has to be tested, extended, challenged.”The White Cube Bermondsey gallery was chosen deliberately, as it is one of the largest commercial exhibition venues in Europe, spacious enough to house Gormley’s epic work. The display will be on until mid February.Inside the sculpture building ‘Model’ at a White Cube gallery in London. (Image from http://whitecube.com)British artist Antony Gormley poses for a photograph on his sculpture ‘Model’ at a White Cube gallery in London November 27, 2012. (Reuters / Stefan Wermuth) … Read More
