Antony Gormley

WEAVE WORKS, 2018 - 2019

How can I begin to describe the indoors of the body, or the body at rest?  

You start thinking about how your two legs are pillars and your pelvis is a lintel. From that point onwards, you are building the torso as a column. If you are not interested in appearance and portraiture - the perfect copy of what we look like - then you start getting interested in how that load path can begin to articulate a set or an attitude in the body. 

That is where drawing comes in. I might draw to work out how to make something, but the drawing that takes me into that gestalt is much more important: the exploration of the feeling of being, of inhabiting a still body-space. 

The WEAVE WORKS come out of this investigation of the body as a place of indwelling: what does it feel like to look out from this space? 

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SUBJECT, 2018

SUBJECT, 2018
10 mm square section mild steel bar
185 x 52.3 x 40 cm
Photograph by Stephen White, London

PLUCK, 2018

PLUCK, 2018
Cast iron
187.5 x 55.2 x 36.8 cm
Photograph by Stephen White & Co.

OBJECT, 2018

OBJECT, 2018
10 mm square section mild steel bar
194.1 x 50 x 34.1 cm
Photograph by Stephen White & Co.

SUBJECT II, 2019

SUBJECT II, 2019
10 mm square section mild steel bar
189 x 51.5 x 37.5 cm
Photograph by Stephen White & Co.

OBJECT II, 2019

OBJECT II, 2019
10 mm square section mild steel bar
193 x 50 x 34 cm