Antony Gormley

INSIDERS AND OTHER RECENT WORK, XAVIER HUFKENS, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, 1999

21 January - 20 March 1999

INSIDERS AND OTHER RECENT WORK featured a selection of Antony Gormley's recent works. Eight of these sculptures were a part of a recently developed series, 'Insiders', which tries to concentrate the information that is needed to signify 'body' to an abosolute minimum. Through a mathematical process, Gormley reduces the original body to one third of its mass. The resulting iron scuptures have a rudimentary, primitive form. By submitting a certain amount of visual information about the concrete body, the nucleus of the sculpture is revealed: the attitude or the memory of an internal condition. This effect was enhanced when several sculptures, standing in a slightly different way, filled one exhibition room. 

SIEVE, 1996-97

SIEVE, 1996-97
4 mm square section steel grid and silver solder
207.5 x 67 x 39.5 cm
Installation view, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium, 1999

INSIDER X/POINTING NORTH. 1998

INSIDER X/POINTING NORTH. 1998
Cast iron
184.5 x 55.7 x 38 cm
Installation view, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium, 1999

INSIDER IX/WEEDS II, 1998

INSIDER IX/WEEDS II, 1998
Cast iron
174.5 x 49.5 x 47 cm
Installation view, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium, 1999

TOGETHER AND APART, 1998

TOGETHER AND APART, 1998
Cast iron
189 x 48 x 28 cm
Installation view, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium, 1999

BASE, 1993

BASE, 1993
Concrete
32 x 160 x 164.9 cm
Installation view, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium, 1999
Photograph by Reiner Lautwein (Bochum, Germany)

INSIDERS AND OTHER RECENT WORK, 1999

INSIDERS AND OTHER RECENT WORK, 1999
Installation view, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium, 1999
Photograph by Reiner Lautwein (Bochum, Germany)

BASE, 1993; SIEVE, 1996-97; DOUBLE EDGE, 1998

BASE, 1993; SIEVE, 1996-97; DOUBLE EDGE, 1998
Installation view, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium, 1999
Photograph by Reiner Lautwein (Bochum, Germany)