Antony Gormley

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Angel of the North

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

Life

Gormley is the youngest of seven children from a German mother and an Irish father. He grew up on Dewsbury Moor in West Yorkshire . He was a student at the Benedictine boarding school Ampleforth College before studying at Trinity College , Cambridge from 1968 to 1971 . His subjects were archeology , ethnology and art history . Gormley spent the next 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 his art studies in London at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and at Goldsmiths, University of London . He then attended a graduate course at the Slade School of Art at University College London from 1977 to 1979 .

Gormley's first exhibition in Germany with the title Antony Gormley: Sculpture was shown in 1985 first in the Städtische Galerie Regensburg and then in the Kunstverein Frankfurt .

In 1994 Gormley was awarded the Turner Prize .

Gormley was on the board of trustees of the Baltic Center for Contemporary Art in Gateshead until 2007 and of the British Museum in London since 2007 .

In October 2010, Gormley and around 100 British artists wrote an open letter to the UK's Conservative Minister of Culture, Jeremy Hunt , in protest against budget cuts for the arts.

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

Work (selection)

Being , Kunstweg MenschenSpuren im Neandertal
Insider VIII , 1998, iron, height 1.86 m. Jerwood Sculpture Collection, Ragley Hall, Warwickshire
Another Place , Crosby Beach

Since the 1990s he has been experimenting with different materials, including steel. His works mostly deal with the human body as a topic. In many cases, his own body served as a template for life-size metal sculptures such as B. Being or Another Place .

Again and again he includes the work of entire social groups in the work process and refers to Joseph Beuys ' concept of social sculpture .

  • 1985: Untitled (for Francis) , sculpture at Tate Modern , London, England
  • 1986: Sound II , installation in the crypt of Winchester Cathedral , Winchester , England
  • 1987: Out of the Dark , male iron sculpture on Martinsplatz in Kassel , 193 × 63 × 40 cm.
  • 1993: Iron: Man , iron sculpture in Victoria Square, Birmingham , England.
  • 1995: Havmannen ; The iron figure of the man in the sea stands in the Ranafjord in front of the Norwegian town of Mo i Rana and was very controversial among the population at the beginning.
  • 1995: Critical Mass ; 60 life-size, cast iron elements that can be arranged in various ways, for example in 2009 in the Kunsthaus Bregenz and in 2010 in the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea on the south coast of England.
  • 1997: Another Place ; 190 iron figures were erected in 1997 for a few weeks in the Wadden Sea off Cuxhaven . The life-size figures, some of them standing up to their breasts in the water at high tide and accessible on foot at low tide, offered the viewer an impressive spectacle. In the summer of 2003, the figures were displayed in De Panne on the Belgian North Sea coast as part of the Beaufort Triennial . The figures have been permanently erected in the mouth of the River Mersey in Crosby Beach north of Liverpool Anfield since 2005 . The dismantling of the figures, planned by the city administration after two years, was rejected by the majority of the population.
  • 1990: Field ; In 1990 Gormley had around 60 Mexican men, women and children create 35,000 hand-sized, roughly shaped clay figures according to his specifications and burn them in a family-run brick factory. He then assembled the figures as a large crowd to create the work Field . The acceptance of differences was also part of mass production. The crowd of figures looking up expectantly shows individual differences despite their similarity. Gormley has been continuing the project since 1991 in various countries with a wide variety of populations, for example in 1993 with Field for the British Isles and in the same year in the Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal Canada and in 2006 with Asian Field , where 350 Chinese farmers from 100 tons Clay formed 180,000 figurines for the Sidney Biennale in five days .
  • 1996: Allotment II ; 300 life-size concrete blocks, according to the dimensions of various residents of the Swedish city of Malmö . These ranged in age from 1½ to 80 years.
  • 1998: Angel of the North ; 1994–1998 he created the steel sculpture Angel of the North with the English engineering firm Arup and shipyard workers in Kingston upon Hull . The 20 m high angelic steel figure has a span of 54 m. It has been a landmark on the M1 in north-east England near the city of Gateshead since 1998 .
Quantum Cloud
  • 1999: Quantum Cloud ; The 30 m high sculpture Quantum Cloud was erected in Greenwich near London's Millennium Dome at the turn of the millennium . It is made up of numerous 1.5 m long steel elements that, as generated by the computer, depict a human figure inside.
  • 2001: Present Time ; The steel sculpture currently stands in one of the courtyards of Mansfield College at Oxford University until 2018 .
  • 2001: stands and falls ; Installation with figure made of cast iron, black water basin and concrete walkway in an inner courtyard of the Jakob-Kaiser-Haus of the German Bundestag in Berlin .
  • 2002: Being , sculpture as part of the sculpture project Kunstweg MenschenSpuren im Neandertal . The cast iron sculpture was placed in the bed of the Düssel .
  • 2002: Apart IX ; The squatting figure, made from metal blocks, is owned by the Palm Springs Art Museum , Palm Springs , California , USA.
  • 2002: filter ; Installation acquired by Manchester Art Gallery , Manchester , England in 2009 .
  • 2003: Inside Australia ; Installation of originally 51 black stainless steel figures in the dry Lake Ballard in Western Australia . In 2016, 49 of the statues were still standing.
  • 2006: Waste Man ; A human figure made from 30 tons of bulky waste on the beach in Margate in England, which was ultimately burned down in 32 minutes as a symbol of the burning bush for the end of the film Exodus .
  • 2006: Time Horizon ; The installation is located in the Archaeological Park of Scolacium near Catanzaro in Calabria , Italy
  • 2007: Blind Light ; Installations at the Hayward Gallery in the Southbank Center , London.
  • 2009: One & Other ; Between July 6th and October 14th, 2009, Gormley invited visitors to Trafalgar Square in London to stay for an hour at a time on the fourth plinth of the square and perform. 2400 "performers" took part.
Another time VIII , an installation in Borås (2010)
  • 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 placed on tall buildings on the South Bank in London. The installation found a new arrangement in 2010 in places around Madison Square in Manhattan , New York City and also in Borås in the Swedish province of Västra Götalands län .
  • 2008: Habitat ; Installation on the grounds of the Anchorage Museum in Anchorage , Alaska .
  • 2008: Reflection II ; At the De Cordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln , Massachusetts .
  • 2008: Sculpture for an Objective Experience of Architecture ; together with the architect David Chipperfield in the Kivik Art Center in Sweden.
  • 2009: Clearing V ; About 10 km of aluminum pipe stretched from wall to wall in a room and partly interwoven.
  • 2009: Voices from Oxford ; The figure stands on Exeter College in Oxford England and overlooks the main street of the university city, Broad Street.
  • 2010: Crouching Figure ; 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 frame.
  • 2010–2012: Horizon Fields ; In the Bregenzerwald in Vorarlberg , Austria , 100 cast iron figures stood in the mountainous landscape, each at an altitude of exactly 2039 above the Adriatic Sea .
  • 2010: 2 X 2 ; On the occasion of the sculpture biennale in Carrara in Italy, Gormley created two larger than life sculptures out of white marble.
  • 2011: Mothership with Standing Matter ; Jernbaneparken in Lillehammer , Norway. The 180 cm high figure made of steel consists of balls of different sizes and is surrounded by other balls that are scattered on the floor of a concrete box. The box can be seen on two sides through glass panes.
  • 2012: Relational Aesthetics ; together with his wife Vicky Parsons. Mobile made of steel rods, polystyrene balls of various sizes, nylon and steel threads, glue and paints, in the Sweethearts exhibition . Artist Couples , Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London.
  • 2012: Unlimited Bodies ; Installation in the Palais d'Iéna , Paris
  • 2012: Horizon Field Hamburg ; Installation in the north of the two Hamburg Deichtorhallen . In the empty hall, a steel structure with a total weight of 67 t was suspended at a height of 7.4 m, with the dimensions 4890 * 2490 * 206 cm. 168 acoustic cells made of wood were attached to the 12 mm thick birch plywood floor and coated with black PU resin. The construction could be entered barefoot via stairs that were not connected to the construction.
  • 2012: Vessel 2012 ; Installation in the Galleria continua in San Gimignano , Tuscany , Italy. Gormley created a sculpture consisting of 39 steel boxes attached to one another and measuring 370 × 2200 × 480 cm. The boxes are made of Corten steel and were attached to each other with M16 steel screws. The installation was shown again in 2015 on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Galeria Continua in their exhibition Follia Continua in the halls of Centquatre Paris .
  • Sum 2012 ; Installation in the Galleria continua. Cast iron figure. Dimensions: 22 × 201 × 51 cm.
  • 2013: Blickachsen 9 ; Blickachsen 9, Bad Homburg, cast iron sculpture: Burst II, 350 × 250 × 81 cm.
  • 2014: Murmur ; White Cube (London) , Bermondsey , London, cube made of precious metal pipes and plastic connectors, 420.5 × 430 × 411 cm.
  • 2014: Check , cast iron 188.5 × 50 × 50 cm. 2015: Part of an installation on the Martello Tower , Aldeburgh , Suffolk , England.
  • 2014/2015: Expansion Field ; Paul Klee Center , Bern; Metal structures made of Corten steel , hermetically welded according to protection class IP 68.
  • 2015: Stop (Lead) ; Lead, 26.7 x 40.1 x 23.2 cm.
  • 2014–2016: Stay ; Cast iron, 184 × 48 × 41 cm. A total of 5 copies. Two copies were purchased from the city of Christchurch in New Zealand , which set up the first in 2015 in the Avon River . The second will be installed in the city center in 2016 after earthquake damage has been repaired.

Exhibitions

  • Antony Gormley: Sculpture , 1985 Stadtische Galerie Regensburg and then Frankfurter Kunstverein , Frankfurt am Main.
  • Antony Gormley . July 12 to October 4, 2009, Kunsthaus Bregenz .
  • Antony Gormley: Aperture , September – October 2009, Xavier Hufgens Gallery, Brussels.
  • Ataxia II. Antony Gormley . April 4 to May 23, 2009, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac , Salzburg / Paris. Exhibition catalog.
  • Still Being (Corpos Presentes) , 2012 to 2013, at the Centro Cultural Banco Brasil in São Paulo and then in Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia. Amazonian Field , Critical Mass , Event Horizon and Breathing Room were part of Gormley's first exhibition in Latin America .
  • Antony Gormley: model , 2012 to 2013, White Cube , Bermondsey Street, London, England.
  • Antony Gormley. Expansion Field. , 2014 to 2015, Zentrum Paul Klee , Bern .
  • Antony Gormley: Sight , May 2 to October 31, 2019, Delos

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/269031/New-Year-Honours-2014-PM-list.pdf
  2. ^ Art in the German Bundestag in a leaflet from Parliament
  3. ↑ Where the wild things live. In: FAZ . July 7, 2011, p. R5.
  4. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from April 1, 2012, page 55
  5. ↑ Website about the project in Hamburg ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.horizonfieldhamburg.com
  6. ↑ Review on Kunstmarkt.com
  7. ↑ Vessel 2012
  8. ↑ The madness should continue in FAZ of October 31, 2015, page 15
  9. ^ Announcement on the exhibition , accessed on July 19, 2014.
  10. ^ Helena Smith: Antony Gormley is the new kid on the block in ancient Greece . In: The Guardian . May 4, 2019, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed May 22, 2019]).

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personal data
SURNAME Gormley, Antony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gormley, Sir Antony Mark David (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH London