http://www.antonygormley.com/show/item-view/id/2313/type/solo
http://www.sculpture-network.org/en/home/publikationen/detail/artikel/de-la-warr-pavilion-gb/78.html
http://www.sculpture-network.org/typo3temp/pics/3c0fbd9dcb.jpg
CRITICAL MASS, DE LA WARR PAVILION, BEXHILL-ON-SEA, UK, 2010
These works of
art are by Antony Gormley. This piece was created in 1995 for a railway depot
in Vienna. This is said to be one of Gormley's best known works. It is made up
of 60 life- sized cast iron body forms. It is displayed on the roof of the De
La Warr Pavilion. One quote from the artist was, "This is the return of
the lost subject to the site of Modernism. It is great to have a chance to test
this piece of sculpture against the clarity of Mendelsohn and Chemayeff's
English masterpiece. I am excited to see these dark forms in the elements
against the sea and in direct light. It will be like a sky burial. How these
masses act in space is very important. The challenge is to make the distance
intimate, internal."
This piece is made up of 5 different casts from 12 discrete moulds of Gormley's body, developing from a low crouching position to squatting, sitting, kneeling, and standing- representing the man figure, ranging through the different motion and different principles of the body.
I choose this body of artwork because it caught my interest. I love the materials used, I cannot imagine how hard it must have been to use cast iron and how hard it must have been getting those moulds just right. The space between the figures is important to making you want to go from one to the other and look at all of them. They are simple body figures. The iron looks thick and smooth. They are simplistic but have many curves and are all elongated figures. This is a dramatic statement to me. I think using iron is dramatic and some of the body positions are dramatic as well. These are large figures, some being symmetrical and some being a symmetrical. It really opens my mind up to the type of work I could make for outside.
This piece is made up of 5 different casts from 12 discrete moulds of Gormley's body, developing from a low crouching position to squatting, sitting, kneeling, and standing- representing the man figure, ranging through the different motion and different principles of the body.
I choose this body of artwork because it caught my interest. I love the materials used, I cannot imagine how hard it must have been to use cast iron and how hard it must have been getting those moulds just right. The space between the figures is important to making you want to go from one to the other and look at all of them. They are simple body figures. The iron looks thick and smooth. They are simplistic but have many curves and are all elongated figures. This is a dramatic statement to me. I think using iron is dramatic and some of the body positions are dramatic as well. These are large figures, some being symmetrical and some being a symmetrical. It really opens my mind up to the type of work I could make for outside.
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