Gallery 10: Concrete Works seek to materialise the space of architecture and our place within it. This is best captured in Crucifix in which Antony used his body as a tool, through the lost wax process, to cast the void of a fully extended body inside a cross-shaped block of reinforced concrete. He explains: The cross was in the body before the body was nailed to the cross and before the cross appeared in architecture.
Gallery 11: Cave was one of the works made especially for the Exhibition. You enter this seemingly random stack of industrial steel boxes from one gallery and exit to another, travelling through dark cavernous spaces of a colossal crouching body! (Ciick the link below to see how it was made.)
With such a scope and variety of works, what they attempt to express and seek to impress upon the audience, it’s no wonder that Antony Gormley is one of the most recognised sculptors of our time. How fortunate we are to be inspired by him!
Crucifix by Antony Gormley
Photos courtesy of Antony Gormley
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