“Co-ordinate VI 2019″ – highly tensioned steel bars dissect the galleries as a ‘perceptual location device”.
Antony Gormley at the Royal Academy was packed when ANM visited. The gallery is undoubtedly receiving eye watering amounts of money judging by the crowds. But it’s got to cover, not just the visible, but the years’ long preparation for the massive scale exhibits.
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These have involved stunts such as tanking a whole gallery over the parquet floor to allow the installation of clay and seawater that is “Host”. The water-filled room embodies “the raw conditions in which life might emerge, a kind of primordial soup of matter, space and time”.
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Antony Gormley 2019 is almost completely accessible, with only the inside of “Cave 2019”, being totally out of bounds to wheelchair users.
This architectural scale sculpture is, viewed from above, a representation of a human form, the body “transformed into a collapsed architecture”, contrasting with the geometry and refinement of the gallery space. Inside the structure, the darkness brings forth the other senses as the hard rolled steel produces echoes inside and reverberations without. Cave 2019 is pictured is our featured image.
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Scale continues to overwhelm with the playful , flexible, pinging coils of tube to step through and marvel at that is “Clearing VII 2019″.
About 8 kilometres of square section aluminium tube, allowed to expand until it meets the floor, walls and ceiling to make what Gormley calls a “drawing in space”.
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Expansion Works – Body and Fruit – Antony Gormley
“Body and Fruit” continues the series “Expansion Works”, “expanded body zones” cast in iron, hanging deliciously low in the domed gallery.
“Body and Fruit” Antony Gormley
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In another gallery the ceiling had to be gradually rebuilt with strengthening to withhold the suspended metal cages of “Matrix III 2019” just over the heads of visitors.
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Gormley describes this “cloud” of metal (98% recycled) as “the ghost of the environment we’ve all chosen to accept as our primary habitat”.
The structural work has been accomplished bit by bit, over the preceding two years, fitted in between other exhibitions. The matrix metal boxes contain a small modern room sized space in the centre.
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Other exhibits in Antony Gormley at the Royal Academy include notebooks, drawings, block sculptures of the human form:
“Subject II 2019” Steel bars map the internal space of the body.
“precarious stacks of hand-rolled clay connect themes of body, building and ground.”
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“Lost Horizon”
“Lost Horizon”
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Antony Gormley is at the Royal Academy until 3rd December 2019
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