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  Tate Liverpool | Past Exhibitions | Antony Gormley: Field
British sculptor Antony Gormley uses the human form to explore man's existence in and relation to the world.
In 1994 Antony Gormley was awarded the Turner Prize for Field, and is perhaps best-known for his large outdoor sculpture Angel of the North.
Antony Gormley: Field complements A Secret History of Clay: from Gauguin to Gormley, 28 May - 30 August in the fourth floor galleries.
www.tate.org.uk /liverpool/exhibitions/gormley   (346 words)

  
  Antony Gormley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Antony Gormley (born 1950) is an English sculptor, best known as the creator of Angel of the North, a public sculpture in Gateshead.
Gormley won the Turner Prize in 1994 with Field for the British Isles.
'Antony Gormley: the abortive rebirth of the slaves'
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 Antony Gormley: the abortive rebirth of the slaves
Apparently, Antony Gormley is not aware of the irony when, in an attempt to stress that he is out at the invisible interior of his sculptures and not at their outer appearance, he provides all the works from this period with the title ‘lead, polyester and… air’.
As Antony Gormley phrases it: "Field is part of a global project in which the earth of a particular region is given form by a group of local people of all ages.
Whereby Antony Gormley, rather than sealing the rebirth of the figure, out of fear of the dangers contained in the figure, prefers to regress to the numerous anti-mimetic trends against which he first seemed to be reacting.
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 Antony Gormley | 21ST CENTURY BRITISH SCULPTURE
Antony Gormley was born in London in 1950.
Recent developments in Gormley's sculpture have given rise to very different forms: sculptures in which the figure is described by a cloud-like aura of welded steel bars, and a series of forms expressing the inner self, sharply defined and extremely dense.
Winner of the Turner Prize in 1994, Antony Gormley is acclaimed internationally.
www.sculpture.org.uk /biography/AntonyGormley   (273 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Arts | Arts features | Leader of the pack
Gormley's latest work to be shown in the UK, Another Place, again draws on his own body for the 100 cast-iron figures, made from 17 slightly different moulds, that will face the open sea for 3km either side of the tideline on Crosby Beach on Merseyside.
Gormley is used to high-profile public commissions - his work was on show at the Millennium Dome in 2000 - as well as collaborating with government agencies as part of wider projects.
Gormley was born in London in 1950, the youngest of seven children, to a German mother and devout Catholic Irish father, who ran the first pharmaceutical company to sign a contract with Alexander Fleming for the commercial production of penicillin.
arts.guardian.co.uk /features/story/0,11710,1512190,00.html   (3894 words)

  
 Antony Gormley
Antony Gormley has created large-scale installations in Cuxhaven, Germany and at the Royal Academy in London and has also participated in several international group shows such as the Venice Biennale and Documenta 8.
Gormley has also had touring museum retrospectives in both Europe and Japan, whilst the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela hosted a solo show of his works in early 2002.
Gormley has commissioned works such as 'Planets' permanently on display at the British Library and has completed a commission for the Perth International Arts Festival for 2003.
www.capefarewell.com /content/art-gormley.php   (379 words)

  
 BBC News | FORUM | Modern art: Ask Antony Gormley
Antony Gormley: Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past that was mixed up with other illustrative duties but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.
Antony Gormley: Making beautiful things for everyday use is a wonderful thing to do - making life flow more easily - but art confronts life, allowing it to stop and perhaps change direction - they are completely different.
Antony Gormley: There is only one art and it is becoming more and more known either by being more in collective space or by being well-known.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/talking_point/forum/744532.stm   (948 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts | Artist turns to China for clay army
Gormley, who is famous for his Angel of the North giant statue, will direct 300 people in building the sculpture installation, made of hand-sized clay figures.
Explaining the idea, Gormley said: "Field is part of a global project in which the earth of a particular region is given form by a group of local people of all ages.
Gormley's work is among a raft of art projects put forward by the British Council's latest venture, Art For A Dangerous World.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/2668483.stm   (344 words)

  
 Antony Gormley | British Sculptor | Antony Gormley - Home
Antony Mark David Gormley (OBE) was born on 30 August 1950 and is currently Britain’s' most famous living sculptor.
Born the youngest of seven children, the artist Antony Gormley grew up in a well off family in Hampstead and after a long study period in, amongst other places, Cambridge; he moved to India and Sri Lanka to study Buddhism for 3 years.
The wings themselves are not planar, but are angled 3.5 degrees forward, which Antony Gormley has been quoted as saying was to create "a sense of embrace".
www.antonygormley.co.uk   (275 words)

  
 Sean Kelly Gallery: Antony Gormley: New Works
Gormley’s ambitious exhibition includes several important freestanding sculptures, accompanied by a major installation in the Main Gallery for which the entire space has been altered.
Antony Gormley is without question one of the seminal artists of our time.
Gormley’s Asian Field, is on view until June 19, 2005, at the 3rd World Ceramic Biennale 2005 in Yeoju, Korea.
www.artnet.de /event/74734/antony-gormley-new-works.html   (575 words)

  
 Interview with Antony Gormley - F. David Peat
Antony Gormley is an internationally known sculptor and winner of the Turner prize.
Gormley In the past I tried to deal with this by replacing the surface structure of skin and hair etc. By a structure oriented to vertical and horizontal axes, a sort of matrix.
Gormley The way in which the work affects you somatically is strongest when things are off balance or standing on the wall.
www.fdavidpeat.com /interviews/gormley.htm   (2810 words)

  
 eyestorm - article - Antony Gormley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Since the late 70s, British artist Antony Gormley has been internationally recognized as having breathed new life into the use of the human form in sculpture.
Gormley is an artist quite unafraid of explicit subjectivism, and is prepared to tackle grand, emotive themes such as life and death, fear and joy.
The image of the solitary person is to be found in both his sculpture and in his works on paper, and the mood this figure conveys is generally contemplative or melancholic.
eyestorm.com /feature/ED2n_article.asp?article_id=239&artist_id=10457   (950 words)

  
 BBC - Liverpool - Entertainment - Antony Gormley @ Crosby Beach
Winner of the Turner Prize in 1994, Antony Gormley is best known for his controversial sculpture ‘Angel of the North’ which dominates the skyline near Newcastle.
Speaking with Antony Gormley he described the work as “a whispering communication with forgotten levels of history” as well as “a kind of acupuncture of the landscape, but also acupuncture of people’s dreamworld”.
Antony Gormley’s work has already brought hundreds of visitors to the area and will undoubtedly raise its profile, not just in Merseyside but across the country.
www.bbc.co.uk /liverpool/content/articles/2005/07/05/art_antony_gormley_feature.shtml   (780 words)

  
 Illuminations | Programme and Film Production, London, UK | Antony Gormley
Antony Gormley's early lead and iron figures were cast from his own body.
Antony Gormley offers a reflective commentary on these and other works and on the central investigations and imperatives of his art.
Antony Gormley, Antje Von Graevenitz, Uddo Kittelmann, Benjami Katz
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk /ourfilms/product/18/antony_gormley.html   (300 words)

  
 TUSCIA ELECTA - Antony Gormley
Gormley is one of the best-known contemporary English sculptors; since the early Seventies, he has dedicated himself with coherence to experimentation that springs from the re-visitation of the idea of monument utilizing the human figure.
The artist uses the body as measure and matrix, as a point of departure to create figures with, through their particular arrangement in space, assume domestic and at the same time estranging connotations.
Antony Gormley has created sculptures for major museums throughout the world, large-scale installations in Great Britain and abroad, as well as a few of the most significant public works in recent decades (including Field for the British Isles, Angel of the North).
www.tusciaelecta.it /enggormley.htm   (1016 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Antony Gormley (Contemporary Artists): Books: John Hutchinson,E. H. Gombrich,Lela B. Njatin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Over the past 20 years, the sculptor Antony Gormley has created some of the most memorable and controversial public art installations in Britain, the United States, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Mexico, Australia, and China.
Gormley has also created many collaborative works in major public museum sites, such as the 190,000 figures in Asian Field and the 250 Domain sculptures made of stainless steel bars commissioned by the Baltic art center in Gateshead, England.
An extended illustrated essay by the renowned political philosopher and writer Richard Noble will consider the development of Gormley’s work, its context of late 20th-century sculpture, and the problematic use of his own body as a model for sculptural forms, as well as offering the first analysis of the political nature of his collaborative works.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0714833835?v=glance   (619 words)

  
 Antony Gormley Cartoons
Antony Gormley cartoon 1 - catalog reference cha0057
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 About Antony Gormley: Domain Field
Antony Gormley was born in London in 1950.
Upon completing a degree in archaeology, anthropology and the history of art at Trinity College, Cambridge, he travelled to India, returning to London three years later to study at the Central School of Art, Goldsmiths College and the Slade School of Art.
Over the last 20 years Antony Gormley has revitalised the human image in sculpture through a radical investigation of the body as a place of memory and transformation, using his own body as subject, tool and material.
www.hants.gov.uk /antonygormley/about.html   (229 words)

  
 Antony Gormley: Inside Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Early one morning in December 2002, under the searing heat of the sun, internationally renowned British sculptor Antony Gormley stepped onto the surface of a vast, million-year-old salt lake in one of the remotest parts of Australia.
He was there to install a remarkable work that would stretch over ten square kilometers and consist of more than fifty sculptures.
It begins with Gormley receiving the permission of local Aboriginal elders for his work and persuading the people of Menzies to take part, and follows with the hazardous casting and back-breaking installation of the sculptures.
www.wwnorton.com /thamesandhudson/new/fall05/551262.htm   (215 words)

  
 Antony Gormley RA - Sculptors - Royal Academicians - Royal Academy of Arts
Antony Gormley RA - Sculptors - Royal Academicians - Royal Academy of Arts
Antony Gormley RA on an installation of 100 cast-iron sculptures moulded from the artist's own body sited on Crosby Beach, Sefton (2006).
Throughout his career, Gormley has used his own body as an archetype, the starting point from which to explore the relationships between bodies and the contexts which they inhabit, primarily through the medium of sculpture.
www.royalacademy.org.uk /academicians/sculptors/antony-gormley-ra,108,AR.html   (492 words)

  
 Domain Field by Antony Gormley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Antony Gormley will be showing part of his installation 'Domain' in the Great Hall at Winchester to coincide with the Festival.
He will himself be giving a presentation on the Saturday morning and taking part in the afternoon forum along with Professor Ramachandran and Professor Gregory.
Her mass and designation as Empress of the World speak a very different language of embodiment — a different marking of space and time.
www.artandmind.org /wamfestival/Pages/DomainField.html   (377 words)

  
 Nothing To See Here: Antony Gormley's Another Place, Crosby
Based on a cast of the artist's body, the sculptures are made out of cast iron and stand staring at the horizon.
Amid the bustle of the beach, the solidity and stolidity of these figures gave me an enormous sense of peace.
According to Antony Gormley, Another Place "harnesses the ebb and flow of the tide to explore man's relationship with nature".
www.nothingtoseehere.net /2006/06/gormley.html   (558 words)

  
 Antony Gormley's Another Place
You will join up with A565 but stay in the left hand lane.
At the first set of traffic lights turn left into Cambridge Road, there is a brown tourist sign, ‘Antony Gormley's Another Place' for the statues at this junction.
Drive straight along this road at the end of which there are two car parks adjacent to the marine lake.
www.sefton.gov.uk /page&6216   (660 words)

  
 Antony Gormley Online
Original works by Antony Gormley available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Search Amazon for books related to Antony Gormley
All images and text on this Antony Gormley page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
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 eyestorm - article - Antony Gormley: resumé   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Gormley, Antony; Hideki Nakamura; Min Tanaka, 'Interview with Antony Gormley/Hideki Nakamura/Min Tanaka', Revue de la pensee d'aujourd'hui, Vol 25, No 2, Tokyo, February, 1997
Gormley, Antony; EH Gombrich, 'Gormley and Gombrich in Conversation', Prospect, No II, London, August/September, 1996
Conti, Vianna, 'Antony Gormley', Artefactum, Belgium, September/October, 1985
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 Amazon.com: Antony Gormley (Contemporary Artists): Books: John Hutchinson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Amazon.com: Antony Gormley (Contemporary Artists): Books: John Hutchinson
Buy this book with Antony Gormley: Standing Matter April-May 2003 by Antony Gormley today!
Antony Gormley: Standing Matter April-May 2003 by Antony Gormley
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 Antony Gormley on artnet
Find works of art, auction results & sale prices of artist Antony Gormley at galleries and auctions worldwide.
Chambers, Christopher, “Antony Gormley: Sean Kelly Gallery,” Flash Art, Vol.
MacAdam, Barbara A., “Antony Gormley,” ARTnews, Volume 104, No. 7,Summer 2005, p.
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