Antony Gormley

NEW SCULPTURE, RIVERSIDE STUDIOS, LONDON, ENGLAND, 1984

12 September - 07 October 1984

The first solo exhibition in the UK since the Whitechapel show in 1981, this exhibition includes works such as HOME (1984), OUT OF THIS WORLD (1983-84), THE BEGINNING THE MIDDLE THE END (1983-84), MIND (1983-84), TREE (1984) and CHROMOSOME (1984). Walking into the gallery, visitors were confronted by an enormous lead-encased cloud, which in spite of its massiveness and overbearing weight, maintained a sense of the cloud's insubstantiality and refusal to be trapped into form. Further in, a life-sized figure placed a tentative foot forward, on his head a crouching clay incubus or conscience, on the floor - projected as a long metallic shadow - another possible extension of the main figure's personality. 

The exhibition toured to Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff from 24 November - 21 December 1984.

NEW SCULPTURE, 1984

NEW SCULPTURE, 1984
Installation view, Riverside Studios, London, England, 1984

UNTITLED [11 BOWLS], 1984

UNTITLED [11 BOWLS], 1984
Lead
Dimensions variable
Installation view, Riverside Studios, London, England, 1984

HOME, 1984

HOME, 1984
Lead, terracotta, plaster and fibreglass
65 x 220 x 110 cm
Installation view, Riverside Studios, London, England, 1984

THE BEGINNING THE MIDDLE THE END, 1983-84

THE BEGINNING THE MIDDLE THE END, 1983-84
Terracotta, lead, air, plaster and fibreglass
235 x 300 x 75 cm
Installation view, Riverside Studios, London, England, 1984

NEW SCULPTURE

NEW SCULPTURE, 2010
Installation view, Riverside Studios, London, England, 1984

OUT OF THIS WORLD, 1983-84

OUT OF THIS WORLD, 1983-84
Lead, terracotta, fibreglass and plaster
140 x 85 x 140 cm
Installation view, Riverside Studios, London, England, 1984

TREE, 1984

TREE, 1984
Lead, fibreglass, plaster and air
472 x 60 x 30 cm
Installation view, Riverside Studios, London, England, 1984

UNTITLED, 1984

UNTITLED, 1984
Copper, plaster and fibreglass
200 cm
Installation view, Riverside Studios, London, England, 1984

CHROMOSOME, 1984

CHROMOSOME, 1984
Lead, zinc and water
46 x 200 x 120 cm
Installation view, Riverside Studios, London, England, 1984
Photograph by David Scott, London

MAN ROCK I, 1982

MAN ROCK I, 1982
Portland stone
60 x 80 x 60 cm
Installation view, Riverside Studios, London, England, 1984

MIND, 1983-84

MIND, 1983-84
Lead, fibreglass and lifting gear
155 x 440 x 275 cm
Installation view, Riverside Studios, London, England, 1984

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