New York:
Art – Sean Kelly – Antony Gormely – Construct. At the Sean Kelly gallery,
Construct, until June 18, a major one-person exhibition of new and key early
works by world-renowned artist Antony Gormley.
Acclaimed
for his sculptures, installations and public artworks that investigate the
relationship of the human body to space, Gormley’s engages the grid to evoke
the experience of inhabiting a human body at “the other side of appearance.”
Above.
a
life-size work from Gormley’s series of ‘Bodycases' - Bridge - 1985. Gormley
sees Bridge as an objective mapping of the subjective space of the human body.
The visible soldering lines on its surface form clear horizontal and vertical
axes: the body is treated as the location of physical and spatial experience.
Antony
Gormley – Scaffold - 2015
A recent
work in which Gormley has translated the grid of horizontal and vertical lines
of Bridge into a freestanding, three-dimensional mapping of the internal
volumes of the body.
Antony
Gormley
Sean Kelly
Antony
Gormley – Big Beamer
The Big
Beamer series deconstructs and reassembles the interior volume of
the body through interlocking steel beams that run in all three axes. Created
at one-and-a-half-times life-size, they represent a body in five unstable
moments of rest—from crouching to fully erect. In spite of their grand scale,
the works remain remarkably playful.
Sean Kelly
Sean Kelly
Antony
Gormley – Stretched Blockworks
These works
continue the artist’s engagement with the massive volumes of architecture by
using rectangular iron blocks to translate body space into mass. Unlike the
‘Big Beamers,’ these volumes are stretched along a single axis to echo the
forms of classic New York high-rises of the early twentieth century.
Jay Joplin
and Tracey Emin
