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Antony Gormley (B.1950, UK) - Clearing. 12.7x12.7mm 16swg aluminium tube (2004-2010)

In a career spanning nearly 40 years, Antony Gormley has made sculpture that explores the relation of the human body to space at large, explicitly in large-scale installations like Another Place, Domain Field and Inside Australia and implicitly in works such as Clearing, Breathing Room and Blind Light, where the work becomes a frame through which the viewer becomes the viewed. By using his own existence as a test ground, Gormley’s work transforms a site of subjective experience into one of collective projection. Increasingly, the artist has taken his practice beyond the gallery, engaging the public in active participation, as in Clay and the Collective Body (Helsinki) and the acclaimed One & Other commission in London’s Trafalgar Square. (cf.artist’s bio) Great thanks to myampgoesto11 for sharing with us one of her contemporary favorite artists Gormley (*)!

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