Antony Gormley

COSMIC, 2014 - 2019

Light plays a major role in the COSMIC drawings, evoking the luminous beginnings of astral matter. The works appear to emerge rather than be willed into form: windows onto deep space.

They are swiftly executed using a Chinese calligraphy brush lightly touched onto the paper. They may be composed of just a single brush stroke, or one stroke repeated three or four times to create a dark background. Some have hardly been touched.

I prefer the single gesture - a single event (some are called EVENT) - created by the forces of fluid matter and discovered, rather than made. Others are titled CHROMOSPHERE in honour of the chromatics of the sun: our very own thermo-nuclear generator.

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SINGULARITY, 2014

SINGULARITY, 2014
Carbon and casein on paper
28 x 38cm

CHROMOSPHERE, 2014

CHROMOSPHERE, 2014
Carbon and casein on paper
28 x 38cm

FISSION, 2014

FISSION, 2014
Carbon and casein on paper
28 x 38.5cm

EVENT, 2019

EVENT, 2019
Carbon and casein on paper
28 x 38 cm

EVENT II, 2019

EVENT II, 2019
Carbon and casein on paper
28 x 38 cm

EVENT III, 2019

EVENT III, 2019
Carbon and casein on paper
28 x 38cm

EVENT IV, 2019

EVENT IV, 2019
Carbon and casein on paper
28 x 38 cm

EVENT V, 2019

EVENT V, 2019
Carbon and casein on paper
28 x 38 cm

CEREBELLUM, 2019

CEREBELLUM, 2019
Carbon and casein on paper
28 x 38 cm

CEREBELLUM II, 2019

CEREBELLUM II, 2019
Carbon and casein on paper
28 x 38 cm

CEREBELLUM III, 2019

CEREBELLUM III, 2019
Carbon and casein on paper
28 x 38 cm

CEREBELLUM IV, 2019

CEREBELLUM IV, 2019
Carbon and casein on paper
28 x 38 cm

CHROMOSPHERE II, 2019

CHROMOSPHERE II, 2019
Carbon and casein on paper
28 x 38 cm

CHROMOSPHERE III, 2019

CHROMOSPHERE III, 2019
Carbon and casein on paper
28 x 38 cm

CHROMOSPHERE IV, 2019

CHROMOSPHERE IV, 2019
Carbon and casein on paper
28 x 38 cm