Antony Gormley

ANOTHER SINGULARITY, 2008 - 2009

ANOTHER SINGULARITY is a body-zone constructed from a matrix of packing polyhedra that conforms to the geometry of the bubble matrix. The skin of this zone is connected to the inner skin of the building by 682 radiating trajectories that complete the tetrahedral node pattern of the rest of the matrix.

The idea is to treat the body as an adimensional space, rather than as an object, and to connect it to architecture and internalise the foundational conditions of space/time 13.7 billion years ago. The gallery space is activated by high tension bungee lines which catch the light from the upper windows, creating a field which contradicts and modifies the orthogonal geometry of architecture and our passage within it.

In mediating between a conceptual, abstract body-zone and the body of the architecture, the viewer becomes a figure in an immersive high-energy field. The work is an implicate order in which every trajectory has a dynamic and interdependent effect on the total matrix.

The proposition of the work is that art can be an instrument with which we re-locate ourselves within a space/time matrix and perhaps begin to negotiate space in a way that is not to do simply with locomotion.

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WORK IN PROGRESS, 2008

Work in progress

WORK IN PROGRESS, 2008

INSTALLATION

INSTALLATION, 2008
Galleri Andersson Sandström, Umea, Sweden, April 2008

INSTALLATION

INSTALLATION, 2008
Galleri Andersson Sandström, Umea, Sweden, April 2008

INSTALLATION

INSTALLATION, 2008
Galleri Andersson Sandström, Umea, Sweden, April 2008

INSTALLATION

INSTALLATION, 2008
Galleri Andersson Sandström, Umea, Sweden, April 2008

INSTALLATION

INSTALLATION, 2008
Galleri Andersson Sandström, Umea, Sweden, April 2008

INSTALLATION

INSTALLATION, 2008
Galleri Andersson Sandström, Umea, Sweden, April 2008

INSTALLATION

INSTALLATION, 2008
Galleri Andersson Sandström, Umea, Sweden, April 2008

INSTALLATION

INSTALLATION, 2008
Galleri Andersson Sandström, Umea, Sweden, April 2008

INSTALLATION

INSTALLATION, 2008
Galleri Andersson Sandström, Umea, Sweden, April 2008

INSTALLATION

INSTALLATION, 2008
Galleri Andersson Sandström, Umea, Sweden, April 2008

INSTALLATION

INSTALLATION, 2008
Galleri Andersson Sandström, Umea, Sweden, April 2008

INSTALLATION

INSTALLATION, 2008
Galleri Andersson Sandström, Umea, Sweden, April 2008

INSTALLATION

INSTALLATION, 2008
Galleri Andersson Sandström, Umea, Sweden, April 2008

INSTALLATION

INSTALLATION, 2008
Galleri Andersson Sandström, Umea, Sweden, April 2008

ANOTHER SINGULARITY SWEDEN

ANOTHER SINGULARITY SWEDEN, 2008
8mm polypropylene cord, 6mm and 8mm polypropylene/rubber bungee cord, steel fixings, 10 x 16 x 16 m
Installation Galleri Andersson, Sandström, Umea, Sweden. Photography by Tord Lund

ANOTHER SINGULARITY SWEDEN

ANOTHER SINGULARITY SWEDEN, 2008
8mm polypropylene cord, 6mm and 8mm polypropylene/rubber bungee cord, steel fixings, 10 x 16 x 16 m
Installation Galleri Andersson, Sandström, Umea, Sweden. Photography by Tord Lund

ANOTHER SINGULARITY JAPAN

ANOTHER SINGULARITY JAPAN, 2008
8mm polypropylene cord, 6mm and 8mm polypropylene/rubber bungee cord, steel fixings
variable dimensions
Installation view, Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial, Japan
Photograph by Takenori Miyamoto + Hiromi Seno

ANOTHER SINGULARITY JAPAN

ANOTHER SINGULARITY JAPAN, 2008
8mm polypropylene cord, 6mm and 8mm polypropylene/rubber bungee cord, steel fixings
variable dimensions
Installation view, Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial, Japan
Photograph by Takenori Miyamoto + Hiromi Seno

ANOTHER SINGULARITY JAPAN

ANOTHER SINGULARITY JAPAN, 2008
8mm polypropylene cord, 6mm and 8mm polypropylene/rubber bungee cord, steel fixings
variable dimensions
Installation view, Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial, Japan
Photograph by Takenori Miyamoto + Hiromi Seno

ANOTHER SINGULARITY CHINA

ANOTHER SINGULARITY CHINA, 2008
8mm polypropylene cord, 6mm and 8mm polypropylene/rubber bungee cord, steel fixings
variable dimensions
Installation view, Galleria Continua, Beijing
Photograph by Oak Taylor-Smith, Beijing

ANOTHER SINGULARITY CHINA

ANOTHER SINGULARITY CHINA, 2008
8mm polypropylene cord, 6mm and 8mm polypropylene/rubber bungee cord, steel fixings
variable dimensions
Installation view, Galleria Continua, Beijing
Photograph by Oak Taylor-Smith, Beijing

ANOTHER SINGULARITY CHINA

ANOTHER SINGULARITY CHINA, 2008
8mm polypropylene cord, 6mm and 8mm polypropylene/rubber bungee cord, steel fixings
variable dimensions
Installation view, Galleria Continua, Beijing
Photograph by Oak Taylor-Smith, Beijing

ANOTHER SINGULARITY CHINA

ANOTHER SINGULARITY CHINA, 2008
8mm polypropylene cord, 6mm and 8mm polypropylene/rubber bungee cord, steel fixings
variable dimensions
Installation view, Galleria Continua, Beijing
Photograph by Oak Taylor-Smith, Beijing

ANOTHER SINGULARITY CHINA

ANOTHER SINGULARITY CHINA, 2008
8mm polypropylene cord, 6mm and 8mm polypropylene/rubber bungee cord, steel fixings
variable dimensions
Installation view, Galleria Continua, Beijing
Photograph by Oak Taylor-Smith, Beijing

ANOTHER SINGULARITY CHINA

ANOTHER SINGULARITY CHINA, 2008
8mm polypropylene cord, 6mm and 8mm polypropylene/rubber bungee cord, steel fixings
variable dimensions
Installation view, Galleria Continua, Beijing
Photograph by Oak Taylor-Smith, Beijing

ANOTHER SINGULARITY

ANOTHER SINGULARITY, 2009
Permamently installed at 913 Futatsuya, Tokamachi City, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, 2009
Photograph by Takenori Miyamoto + Hiromi Seno

ANOTHER SINGULARITY (CHINA)

ANOTHER SINGULARITY (CHINA), 2009
8mm polypropylene cord, 6mm and 8mm polypropylene/rubber bungee cord, steel fixings
Dimensions variable
Installation view, Galleria Continua Beijing, China, 2009
Photograph by Oak Taylor-Smith, Beijing

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